Re: Paste into XyDOS from clipboard?

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

I just downloaded Notetab from the Internet and will work on this when I
have time in the next few days.


Many thanks!



At 11:04 AM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:

    We never did get an answer to this
    question, which is really a Windows
    question. I have the same problem.
    I think he's referring to XyWrite
    for DOS. At any rate, I am.   --Norman Bauman

        How can I paste in copy into
        XyWrite from the Windows clipboard
        without having to use alt+enter to
        switch to windows mode, then use a
        mouse on the XyWrite Icon. I'd love
        to be able to do it with a keystroke.  --Jay McNally

First, do you know that, with Windows active and using
a pointing device, you can paste directly from the win95
clipboard into whatever you left on the xyWrite 3 (full)
screen? Right-click xyW icon on taskbar->copy->paste.

But as far as I'm concerned, the missing link between
dos xyWrite and win9x is NoteTab http://www.notetab.com/,
the best gui text editor I know, especially the
"pasteboard" feature included even in the no-nag
freeware version. One non-xyW-using friend uses
NoteTab solely for this feature, but the editor
--a Dorothy Day find--has much else to recommend it.

When you designate a pasteboard file (Shift+Ctrl+P
toggles), NoteTab collects everything you copy to
the clipboard--no matter what the Windows app--in
the pasteboard file, a text file like any other.
I dedicate a file named PB as the pasteboard file
and in xyW3 open it to grab something that's been
on the clipboard, or to copy something to PB that
I'll then, with NoteTab active, copy to the clipboard.
When another app has altered an open file while NoteTab
has been inactive, NoteTab knows and asks if you want
it to update the file.

Granted, this no doubt involves more steps than you'd
like and requires Alt+Tab'ing instead of Alt+Enter'ing,
but when a gui is involved you can't win 'em all. NoteTab
lets you define the delimiter between clips, so you can
automate the process in xyWrite with xpl; a xyWrite 3
!xyWiz module named !pb does so. ... Ciao.   --a

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