[nvda] Re: about a new feature

Hi,

I think this idea, while perhaps nice in theory, falls down in practice.
To me the idea of having to keep track of what was "just said" in order that it might be copied to the clipboard is quite problematic. For example, how do you define "just said"? HOw far back do you go? If you do a "say all", does NVDA have to remember the entire part of the document that you read in case you want to cut it? If you use a program that produces a lot of output, do you need to remember all of it? 

And you will almost certainly lose formatting information.
The other point really is how necessary is this? Using the text example, you can just as easily copy the line from the document or edit field. Additionally, a number of NVDA keys that produce speech can copy text to the clipboard. I believe that NVDA + t pressed twice quickly will copy the title, for example. There was discussion of this awhile back but I can't remember which keys do this sort of thing.
Finally, I believe you can copy text from the object navigator, which should give you access to most text that's not copyable any other way. 

Geoff.


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