multi tasking

Dave Hunt wx1g at attbi.com
Wed Apr 3 22:26:40 EST 2002


I guess such a cutter/paster would like emacs?  Whatever app's the 
person's running, if there are emacs modes for them, the user has a 
"clipboard" common to all.


-Dave
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > Without speakup, a sighted person would probably use the mouse to
> > cut and paste. "gpm" is a general purpose mouse program for text
> > consoles designed to do just that.
> 
> Yes, but what about if they don't have a mouse?  AFter all, it has been
> proven that for such jobs in Windows, the keyboard can be faster, and
> indeed there are typing pools etc that don't allow the use of mice.





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