Hi Januk,
On 09 August 2000 at 20:22:46 GMT -0700 (which was 04:22 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "Two Format Questions":
>> ... They just want auto-format to work the same on pasted text as
>> it does on their typing.
JA> What would be your closest analogy for pasting? Is hitting the paste
JA> button the same as typing whatever you copied? Or is it like going to
JA> a magazine and physically ripping out the page and sticking it into
JA> your message?
Both are correct, depending upon circumstance and context.
JA> Once that's cleared up, I do not see why your suggestion is flawed.
JA> With auto-formatting on, TB could treat pasting as though you were
JA> typing really really fast. With auto-formatting off, TB could treat
JA> pasting as if you took that magazine page and a glue stick to your
JA> screen.
Exactly right. However, right now all we have is the latter and it
certainly doesn't usually even look like the original once it gets
pasted anyway (depending upon source).
JA> However, all said and done, I don't think that TB's implementation
JA> of the paste feature is a *bug*. I just think it is a choice that
JA> was made, and one that could be enhanced.
:-) possibly - but IMHO the way it is implemented /breaks/ the edit
window's auto-format and line wrap settings. For me that's what turns
it from an inconvenience into a bug. If it were software *I* had
written a problem like that would go in the "bugs to fix" list, not
the "features to be improved upon" list.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
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