Re: Copy and paste, and "undo"

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Copy and paste, and "undo"
Date: 16:04 on 14 May 2004
> 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?

For that matter, how do you know two windows containing two documents are
in the same application? They may be in separate instances of the same
application, either different versions on one computer or on different
computers.

Making "Undo" mean something other than "Undo in this document" opens up a
whole bunch of issues, and anything between "System Wide" and "This Document"
is likely to engender all kinds of hate.

Which I suppose would be good for this site. Carry on.
There's stuff above here

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