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On 6/23/21 08:08, William Lee Valentine wrote:
> My comment may be rudimentary.
>
> I copy onto the Windows clipboard all the time (by selecting text with
> the mouse and then pressing control/C). I am not then able to paste the
> selected text into a text document with one click: I must minimize the
> original document (or close it), and I then have two choices.
>
> (1) I can open a second document, click at some point within it, and
> press control/V to paste my text into the second document.
>
> (2) I can execute a text editor like Notepad and press control/V, to
> paste the selected text into the text editor. I can then tell the text
> editor to save the new file as a text document.
>
> -- William Lee Valentine
>
You didn't mention which display manager you use.  I use KDE and it is really 
easy to cut and paste.  I believe other DMs have this same capability since I 
have used it in VMs running those other systems.   The page at 
"https://userbase.kde.org/Klipper" describes the clipboard:

"Within Plasma there are two different buffers. One is the clipboard and the 
other is the selection. The clipboard buffer is filled when you press Ctrl + X 
or Ctrl + C and pasted by using Ctrl + V. The selection buffer is filled by 
simply marking some text and pasted by pressing the middle mouse button. Having 
said that it is important to know that Klipper can be configured to hold both 
buffers."

So after simply highlighting text you can go to another window (say a new 
document) and past the text with the middle mouse button (usually a scroll 
button or emulated on a laptop by hitting both left and right touch-pad buttons 
at the same time).  No ctrl-c ctrl-v.  Plus your clipboard can hold as many 
items as you want (I have mine set to 60).  So you could go through one document 
highlighting things you want to copy over and over ... then go to a second 
document and hitting Alt-c (quick display of highlighted text) to choose what 
you want to past.  The item to be pasted is at the top of the list.  You can 
choose another item simply by left clicking that item ... going back to the new 
document and hitting the middle mouse button!

So you don't have to keep going back and forth between documents just highlight 
multiple times until you are done (assuming you have set  the count high enough) 
and then go back to the new document and past each item in whatever order you want.

Hope this helps.

-- 



*...Bob*

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