Cut and Paste function for Jot

[Michael Portuesi]

>>>>> On 14 Nov 90 07:38:33 GMT, karron at KARRON.MED.NYU.EDU said:

> There has been some discussion of what some people would like to see
> in Jot. High on some folk's wish list was a cut and paste function for Jot.

> Well, it is in there if you know how to tease it out. The following was
> discovered by trial and error. You Jot guys should have revealed this first!
> This should be more obvious in the menus.

[procedure description omitted...]

Well, jot has always had a cut and paste function on its menus.  What
you just described was a way to do search and replace using the Search
feature combined with the Paste command.

As for suggestions for other enhancements to Jot, it's currently being
rewritten for the next major software release.  I'm not the person
performing the overhaul, and I don't know what enhancements (if any)
might appear, but we do read the suggestions which appear here and
we'll consider any enhancements that you'd care to suggest.  When
suggesting an enhancement, please keep in mind that Jot was intended
to be a simple, functional editor for "the rest of us", i.e. people
who won't deal with the huge, complex command set of an editor such as
emacs or vi.  We'd like to add essential features to Jot, but we want
to avoid "creeping featuritis" and keep it's small and simple
philosophy.

m.
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