Edith Manual           Clipboards        11th June 1994


The CLIPBOARD PANEL displays the contents of the  three
text buffers:

   the CUT/PASTE/REPLACE buffer
   the DELETE/TEXTOP buffer
   the ALL PURPOSE buffer

and three icons:

   the DISK (represents the file selector)
   the TRASH CAN
   the SHREDDER (the 'radio active' icon)

The CUT/PASTE/REPLACE buffer is used by the  Cut, Copy,
Paste, Overlay  and  search/replace  operations.    The
DELETE/TEXTOP buffer is used by Delete, Delete Line and
all operations  in  the  TEXT menu.   The  ALL  PURPOSE
buffer is there for the user.

Buffers can be DRAGGED and DROPPED onto eachother, onto
the disk, trash  can  and  shredder  icons, onto  other
Edith  windows, and  when  using  MultiTOS, also   onto
windows  belonging  to   other  applications  such   as
MINIWIN.

Drag a buffer onto the disk icon to save a buffer; drag
the disk icon onto  a buffer to load  a file into   it.
Drag a buffer  onto the  trash can  to move  it to  the
trash  can.   Drag  anything   onto  the  shredder   to
permanently discard it.

DOUBLE CLICK on a text buffer  or the trash can to open
it into a window.

** The upper  two  text  buffers  are  marked  with  an
   exclamation mark when  the information they  contain
   is 'vital', which is to say that if this information
   is lost, it cannot be found elsewhere. When MOVE OLD
   BUFFERS TO  TRASH FILE  is  selected in  the  EDITOR
   OPTIONS dialog, vital data is automatically saved to
   the trash can whenever it is overwritten.

** The trash can and text buffer windows are read-only.


Edith Manual           Clipboards        11th June 1994