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<TeXmacs|1.99.5>
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<tmdoc-title|Cut and paste>
You can select text and formulas by maintaining the left mouse button. In
order to delete the selected region, use <menu|Edit|Cut> or
<shortcut|(clipboard-cut "primary")>. In order to copy the selected region,
first click on <menu|Edit|Copy> or hit<nbsp><shortcut|(clipboard-copy
"primary")>. Next, paste it as many times as you want to the location of
your cursor, using <menu|Edit|Paste> or<nbsp><shortcut|(clipboard-paste
"primary")>. Alternatively, you may copy a selected region using the middle
mouse button.
It is also possible to change the text properties of a selected region. For
instance, in order to transform some black text in red, you select it using
the left mouse button and click on <render-menu|Format|<rigid|<render-menu|Color|<tabular*|<tformat|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-vcorrect|n>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-lsep|1spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-rsep|1spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-bsep|1spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-tsep|1spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-width|1.5em>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-hmode|exact>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-background|red>|<table|<row|<cell|>>>>>>>>.
Similarly, if you select a formula and you click on <menu|Insert|Fraction>,
then the formula becomes the numerator of the newly created fraction.
When using the copy and paste mechanism to communicate with other
applications, text is copied and pasted using the <TeXmacs> data format.
You may specify other import and export formats using
<menu|Tools|Miscellaneous|Import selections as> <abbr|resp.>
<menu|Tools|Miscellaneous|Export selections as>. Alternatively, you may
directly copy to or paste from an external format using the first group of
entries in the <menu|Edit|Copy to> and <menu|Edit|Paste from> submenus. For
instance, a <LaTeX> formula can be pasted inside a <TeXmacs> formula using
<menu|Edit|Paste from|LaTeX>.
By default, copying and pasting uses the \Pprimary clipboard\Q. Using the
remaining entries in the <menu|Edit|Copy to> and <menu|Edit|Paste from>
menus, you may specify as many other clipboards as you like. This allows
you to keep multiple selections in memory, ready to be pasted.
There are two ways to make selections using the keyboard. When using the
cursor keys<nbsp><key|left>, <key|right>, <abbr|etc.> while holding down
the <prefix|S-> button, you may select text while moving around the cursor.
Alternatively, you may press <shortcut|(kbd-select-enlarge)> once to fix a
starting position. When moving around using the cursor keys, the text
between the starting position and the current position keeps being
selected. The selection gets cleared by pressing
<shortcut|(selection-cancel)>.
Notice that the <shortcut|(kbd-select-enlarge)> shortcut also allows you to
make <em|structured selections>. You may select the current word you are in
by pressing<nbsp><shortcut|(kbd-select-enlarge)> twice. Each additional
time you press <shortcut|(kbd-select-enlarge)> results in the selection of
the smallest structure that englobes the current selection. Ultimately,
when the entire document gets selected, pressing
<shortcut|(kbd-select-enlarge)> once more clears the selection.
<tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven>
<tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
Documentation License".>
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