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RE: [platform-ui-dev] Re: VOTE: Cut, Copy, Paste 
Yes, if you take everything literally, but this is what should happen:

Cut in editor operations:
1. Cut - Object removed from the editor and placed into "clipboard" object
2. Paste - Object placed into new editor.

Cut in file level operations:
1. Cut - Object is NOT removed from the file system but copy of it placed
into "clipboard" object (Just like in copy)
2. Paste - Copy of object placed into new location in file system and only
then removed from the old location .

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From: Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx [mailto:Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [platform-ui-dev] Re: VOTE: Cut, Copy, Paste



From my point of view, those are perfect examples of why "Cut" is a bad
paradigm for file level operations. 

McQ. 



"Jay Cagle" <jcagle@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Bummer.  You might want to change the Move menu item to "Move..." to
indicate that Move prompts while Copy doesn't.  Mixing the two paradigms is
a little confusing. 

What about the case where you cut a file from the Navigator and then paste
into a text editor?  (Or in general where the pasted representation doesn't
contain all the information of the original.) 

-- Delete the file.  (A Cut is always a Cut.) 
-- Don't delete the file.  (A Cut is a Copy in cases where information is
lost.) 
-- Don't allow Paste.  When doing a Cut only use FileTranfer and
ResourceTransfer -- representations where information isn't lost.  Although,
this doesn't address the case of a resourceful text editor that uses a
FileTransfer to paste the file name. 

In Windows Explorer you can Cut a file and Paste it into Wordpad (but not
NotePad).  In this case, the file and its contents are placed in the WordPad
document, however, the file is not deleted from the file system.  In fact,
you can paste multiple times. 

Jay

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WebSphere Studio Web Tooling Development
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Randy_Giffen@xxxxxxx 
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Cut is not planned for 2.0 
Some issues came up with requiring Clipboard support for notification of a
successful Paste and visual indication of the "cut" state.

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