[NTLK] Transferring notes with Einstein - Paste to Einstein?

[Greg Goodwin]

"Yes, I implemented that half way. My first approacch was to keept whatever is in the pastebuffer and load that into the Einstein buffer, but then you always have one of those hovering buffers on the side. I don't remember what exactly in the end kept from finishing this."
"I will take another look at that. Simulating keystrokes would be one way.”

Well truthfully whatever else you and all decided to do made the current functionality fairly awesome.  Priorities I get it.  
But I you do try the keystroke method, or even the hovering side buffer, will be interesting to try out.


"Probably. But NCX does some amazing trickery. The Newton Docking protocol allows the NCX to send scripts that expand the docking capability with new commands. Nobody was afraid back then tht the charging cable could just opload malicious code like they do today :). “


That is what I remember hearing in the “Love Notes to Newton” video.  That things were so much more about sharing and not so locked down as they are today.   Anyway the flexibility is pretty awesome.




Matthias Melcher m.melcher at robowerk.de <mailto:newtontalk%40newtontalk.net?Subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20%5BNTLK%5D%20Transferring%20notes%20with%20Einstein%20-%20Paste%20to%20Einstein%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C622606AA-9015-4046-B8A9-5670DF7A696A%40robowerk.de%3E>
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> On 23. Feb 2026, at 19:09, Greg Goodwin <doctorclu at gmail.com <http://lists.newtontalk.net/mailman/listinfo/newtontalk>> wrote:
> 
> Follow-up question:
> 
> How about the ability to paste from the host computer to Einstein Niotes?

Yes, I implemented that half way. My first approacch was to keept whatever is in the pastebuffer and load that into the Einstein buffer, but then you always have one of those hovering buffers on the side. I don't remember what exactly in the end kept from finishing this.

> As mentioned before NCX currently has it where you can use the computer keyboard and paste items into the connected Newton/Einstein that way.
> 
> As it stands I would imagine the keyboard feature of Einstein is based on the eMate setup, or maybe the Newton’s ability to use a connected serial connection.  So that was probably fairly native.

Probably. But NCX does some amazing trickery. The Newton Docking protocol allows the NCX to send scripts that expand the docking capability with new commands. Nobody was afraid back then tht the charging cable could just opload malicious code like they do today ;-)

> Is there any way Einstein could have the cut and paste from the host computer, like in NCX, as a standard Einstein feature?

I will take another look at that. Simulating keystrokes would be one way.

 - Matthias