Re: trying to figure out alternative cut and paste (Eric S. Johansson)

On 8/6/2011 12:13 PM, steven Mitchell wrote: > Eric, > I'm not sure of all of what you said since I have never used Naturally > Speaking, but I do know that the > method of copy/paste used by windows is known by the name CUA\ as Stephen pointed out, CUA has gone stable long time and when you add Emacs you have a tortured history. I guess I was approaching in a backwards fashion wondering if anybody knew how one uses the Windows copy and paste commands to get information to or from an application. Would this alternative method work with Emacs and not get in the way of the normal Emacs keystrokes? Keystroke remapping doesn't work for me because 1) the damned keystrokes are wired so hard into my muscle memory now I don't think I could change, 2) I'm not entirely hands-free and I will still try to type on occasion if my voice is feeling stressed. In thinking about this, I start wondering if there was an alternative. Could one mirror the visible portion of the Emacs buffer into another Windows edit control? Sounds weird I'll admit but follow me for a moment. The normal way NaturallySpeaking speech enables an application is to create a shadow buffer called a vdict and anything that is dictated into that buffer is copied to the real application buffer and anything typed into the real application buffer appears in the vdict. Normally only one window shows and that's okay for things are the usual word processor type of stuff. Emacs is special. We all admit that at some level. Some days it's special like magic, other days it's special like sped. I'm thinking that if I could just have a second window that was designed to work with speech recognition automatically like some of the standard edit controls are, is it possible to synchronize the two windows? You type into one, it appears in both. I'm planning on some magic for making it possible to edit code using this model but it's important to be able to synchronize the display windows on both sides. Any ideas? Any suggestions. This is really important so any response is welcome. --- eric