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On 14 May 2004 at 16:28, Earle Martin wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:04:31AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > > Erm, well then, you use the "undo" in each application. On each > > > computer. I wasn't talking about a system-wide "undo", I was > > > talking about application-wide "undo". > > > > But the clipboard is a system-wide object. If I cut something into > > the clipboard in application A and select undo in application B, > > what happens? > > Bugger all, because you didn't do anything in application B, ergo > "Undo" is not available. What if the clipboard contains "pony". User cuts the text "foo" from application A. User then cuts the text "bar" from application B. User then selects "undo" in application A. What is in the clipboard afterwards? "pony"? "bar"? "foo"? gremlins? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>There's stuff above here
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