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Use

You use this feature to copy, cut and paste text while you edit your source code. The clipboard ring can store block selections and regular code fragments.

Features

  • When you copy or cut text, the fragments are stored in a clipboard storage known as the clipboard ring. There you can choose between different copied fragments and paste them back into your code. The clipboard can store up to 12 items, which are displayed in historical sequence and use the last-in-first-out logic.

  • To append a selected block to the clipboard contents, right-click in the code and choose Start of the navigation path More Next navigation step Copy-Append To Clipboard End of the navigation path or Cut-Append to Clipboard .

  • To open the Extended paste menu, right-click in the code and choose Start of the navigation path More Next navigation step Extended Paste End of the navigation path or press CTRL+SHIFT+V .

  • To insert date and time in different formats, right-click in the code and choose Start of the navigation path More Next navigation step Extended Paste End of the navigation path.

Figure 1: Extended Paste

Multiple Clipboard Formats

The Front-End Editor supports multiple clipboard formats, such as plain text, RTF, and HTML. You can also paste WYSIWYG text in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Outlook. Unicode encoding is also supported, allowing you to copy and paste Unicode characters.

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Using Buffers

Block Selection