Menu item "copy"

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Bert
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Menu item "copy"

Post by Bert »

I use it every time I save something into a directory.
But the name "copy" may not represent enough what it does I think.
If you name it "copy header name to clipboard" people may notice easier they can use it to give a save folder the name of the header just copied to the clipboard.

Bert
Josef K
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Post by Josef K »

I'd also like a tweak to the Copy function. For instance, I want to download something and it has a long name. Instead of typing the whole name myself manually, I just copy the article, select all in the series and download & save - pasting into a New Folder item the contents of the clipboard. Now, this copies everything when all I need is the subject line. I don't want a directory with names, dates, article IDs, etc. - just the subject.

In NP there was the option of copying each part of an article's info separately (CTRL+C for subject alone). I realise it's just me being lazy having to edit each save directory everytime I go to save something but when you have a lot of things to download, naming all those save directories can become tedious.

So if we had the old NP way of copying it would help solve the 'Copy' not being descriptive enough because you'd have 'Copy subject', 'Copy author', 'Copy message-id', and so on, all of which would be much more self-explanatory.
Bert
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Post by Bert »

I know what you mean. Maybe it is done this way to minimize the number of menu items. Newspro had a separate copy subject and copy author function. UE copies the whole subject line at once.

I use a macro programm which extracts only the info i need, sometime it is author but mostly the subject is enough. Especially to create a directory name.
alex
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Post by alex »

maybe to add advanced->advanced menu :)

we'll see whether other users need it, naturally it is easy to add, i also want to keep the number of options minimal.
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Post by Josef K »

As long as I can assign a shortcut of my choice to copy subject alone then I'm not bothered where in the menu it is. I'd just be super happy it was there somewhere. :D
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Post by Michaelm »

I'd like that too :)
alex
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Post by alex »

i'll add 'copy subject', just forgot to put it into 'current issues'.
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Post by Bert »

But I hope we can keep copy author also. I use that to filter out all files from the same poster.
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Post by hholland »

It would be nice if we could mark and copy from the newsgroup header display and use the copied segment for searches etc etc.

Even better (but not worth the code), mark a segment of the headers and or an entire subject and find-like entries filter.

k:)
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