To all the folks suggesting clipboard managers, I think you're missing the point of kalos' request. He doesn't want to MANUALLY cut/copy and paste, he wants something to automatically parse through a source text file and allow him to quickly send each line to a, potentially, different target file.
-skwire
exactly
For the sake of easier coding, let's assume a maximum of thirty targets, okay? That way, each target can have a button as well as a hotkey:
1-10: Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-3...
11-20: Ctrl-Shift-1, Ctrl-Shift-2, Ctrl-Shift-3...
21-30: Ctrl-Alt-1, Ctrl-Alt-2, Ctrl-Alt-3...
...or whichever combos you want.
Would this be acceptable? Also, you didn't answer my question about GUI design. What did you have in mind? Did you want to see the whole source text file? Or just sentence by sentence as it parses through it? Or, did you want to leave it entirely up to me?
-skwire
yes, it would be acceptable, but simple letters would be nice too, where each of the letter is the initial of the target filename, anyway, that doesn't matter much
as for GUI, seeing sentence by sentence would be easier for the eyes, which won't be distracted by the above and below sentence, so it may be preferable
in case of seeing the whole source text file, there must be some way to see which sentence is about to be send to the target text file, maybe by highlighting it