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chris
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Posted: 10:06pm 26 Sep 2020

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I know I have mentioned it before, but please - if it's at all possible, can you add a way of copying and pasting lines of text between files?

I suggested the ability to toggle between the last two files edited (without going back to the prompt) before (without clearing the clipboard), but I'm not sure if that was accepted as the best approach, and I have no idea what the workaround is off the top of my head.

I think like most other people, when they are learning something new, they are building up a lot of single use programs, to test various concepts, but without a way of collecting this code together when building a larger program via copy and paste, it seems that the MM Basic editor is not living up to its full potential. On PC it doesn't much matter because you have OS level copy and paste, but on CMM2, if this isn't in the firmware, then there is no workaround.

I know you have a lot on your plate, and I can live without this feature (by doing merges using a PC), but it's super clunky and it takes me out of the BOOT TO BASIC groove.

I'm very grateful for the platform. Thank you for all your hard work.

TassyJim

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Posted: 10:28pm 26 Sep 2020

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Quote F7 Will prompt for a file name and will insert the text from that file into the editor at the current cursor position.
F8 or CTRL-B Will prompt for a file name and will write to the file the contents of the text that had been previously cut or copied in the select mode (see above).

You could use F8 to save interesting code segments to a library.
Then when you want the segment, F7 to paste the previously saved code into your current document.

I don't use the inbuilt editor much but that's how I work on the PC (in MMEdit).

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Posted: 11:24pm 26 Sep 2020

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chris said I know I have mentioned it before, but please - if it's at all possible, can you add a way of copying and pasting lines of text between files?

I also use F8/F7.

If you're using Tera Term, you can copy and paste from there as usual (but only a few lines without issues).

Michael

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