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Several GUI editors allow copying text into or pasting text from specific clipboards, typically using a special keystroke-sequence to specify a particular clipboard-number.
Clipboard managers can be very convenient productivity-enhancers by providing many more features than system-native clipboards. Thousands of clips from the clip history are available for future pasting, and can be searched, edited, or deleted. Favorite clips that a user frequently pastes (for example, the current date, or the various fields of a user's contact info) can be kept standing ready to be pasted with a few clicks or keystrokes.
Similarly, a kill ring provides a LIFO stack used for cut-and-paste operations as a type of clipboard capable of storing multiple pieces of data.[4] For example, the Emacs text-editor developed by Richard Stallman provides a kill ring.[5] Each time a user performs a cut or copy operation, the system adds the affected text to the ring. The user can then access the contents of a specific (relatively numbered) buffer in the ring when performing a subsequent paste-operation. One can also give kill-buffers individual names, thus providing another form of multiple-clipboard functionality.
[edit] See also
Control key
Copy and paste programming
Photomontage
Clipboard
Drag and drop
Publishing Interchange Language
X Window selection
[edit] References
^ Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, MIT Press 2007, pp. 63-68
^ "Clipboard Master". Clipboard Master 2.0 by In Phase Consulting, July 1994.
http://forums.info-mac.org/viewtopic...dc2aed3c788fff. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
^ "copypasta". Urban Dictionary.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=copypasta. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
^ GKB (Generic Knowledge Base) Editor user's manual
^ GNU Emacs manual
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