[PD] shortcuts for patching

[adam armfield]

<pre>that sounds good, i think there are some moves
afoot to give subpatches some abstraction like
properties.  

one refinement i'd suggest (to make patching faster)
is to have unique or aliased as a default (which could
be changed with a preferences file) so that copies can
be pasted in without a dialogue box appearing, and
then an option to convert from one type to another (if
several subpatches could be selected and have their
type changed at once this would keep editing fast) -
kind of like make ghost copy in cubase

>You select a subpatch and copy - a dialog asks
whether you want 
>a unique or aliased copy. An alias is identical to an
abstraction with 
>all scoping rules satisfied, but it only exists in
the current file, if 
>you edit one instance in the patch all others change
too.

>that's my loose change on the subject,
>cheers,
>Andy

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