I guess such a cutter/paster would like emacs? Whatever app's the person's running, if there are emacs modes for them, the user has a "clipboard" common to all. -Dave On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Without speakup, a sighted person would probably use the mouse to > > cut and paste. "gpm" is a general purpose mouse program for text > > consoles designed to do just that. > > Yes, but what about if they don't have a mouse? AFter all, it has been > proven that for such jobs in Windows, the keyboard can be faster, and > indeed there are typing pools etc that don't allow the use of mice.