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For issues relating to cut, copy, and paste operations.

The term "copy-and-paste" refers to the popular, simple method of reproducing text or other data from a source to a destination. It differs from cut and paste in that the original source text or data does not get deleted or removed. The popularity of this method stems from its simplicity and the ease with which users can move data between various applications visually – without resorting to permanent storage.

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How do I copy to the clipboard in JavaScript?

What is the best way to copy text to the clipboard (multi-browser)? I have tried: function copyToClipboard(text) { if (window.clipboardData) { // Internet Explorer window.clipboardData.setData("Text", text); } else { …
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How do you copy and paste into Git Bash

I'm using msysgit running on Windows XP. Tried Ctrl+V, Right click, Middle click, google... no luck.
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How to paste yanked text into the Vim command line

I'd like to paste yanked text into Vim's command line. Is it possible?
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How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android?

Can anybody please tell me how to copy the text present in a particular textview to clipboard when a button is pressed? @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); …
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Paste text on Android Emulator

Is there an easy way to copy/paste (desktop's) clipboard content to EditView on Android Emulator? (just for the sake to ease development/test)
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Copy and paste content from one file to another file in vi

I am working with two files, and I need to copy a few lines from one file and paste into another file. I know how to copy (yy) and paste (p) in the same file. But that doesn't work for different files. How is this done? Also, is there a way to…
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Copying text outside of Vim with set mouse=a enabled

After enabling set mouse=a, text copied inside of Vim will not paste outside of Vim. Does anybody know of a way to fix this? Here, selecting text with the mouse turns on visual mode and disables the Copy option in the popup menu:
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How to copy text to the client's clipboard using jQuery?

The workflow is simple: You click inside a textarea. The text is copied to the client's clipboard. Display notice to the user. How do you do it?
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How to delete (not cut) in Vim?

How can I delete a line without putting it into my default buffer? Example: line that will be copied. line that I want to be substitued with the previous one. What I'm trying to do: yy dd p But Vim replaces the recent copied string with the…
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How to paste text to end of every line? Sublime 2

I'm curious if there is a way to paste text to the end of every line in Sublime 2? And conversely, to the beginning of every line. test line one test line two test line three test line four ... Say you have 100 lines of text in the editor, and you…
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Why is "copy and paste" of code dangerous?

Sometimes, my boss will complain to us: Why do we need such a long time to implement a feature? Actually, the feature has been implemented in another application before, you just need to copy and paste codes from there. The cost should be…
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How do I enable standard copy paste for a TextView in Android?

I want to enable standard copy paste for a TextView (the same as for EditText). How can I do it? I tried using a non-editable EditText but it didn't work well (sometimes it became editable or the copy paste overlay was not shown). And it's probably…
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How to copy text from Emacs to another application on Linux

When I cut (kill) text in Emacs 22.1.1 (in its own window on X, in KDE, on Kubuntu), I can't paste (yank) it in any other application.
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Capturing Ctrl-c in ruby

I was passed a long running legacy ruby program, which has numerous occurrences of begin #dosomething rescue Exception => e #halt the exception's progress end throughout it. Without tracking down every single possible exception these each…
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How can I copy & paste, or duplicate, an existing project?

I've got an existing Hudson project that is configured and working. I need to duplicate the project so that I can have the original and then change the new one so that it points to a different source control. I don't want to manually recreate the…
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