The easiest way to move text around is to use the clipboard. The clipboard is a temporary holding area for text and other data. The clipboard can also be used to move text between different applications. Edit>Cut (keyboard equivalent: Control-X) copies the selected text into the clipboard and removes it from the buffer. Edit>Copy (keyboard equivalent: Control-C) copies the selected text into the clipboard. File>Paste (keyboard equivalent: Control-V) will insert the clipboard contents at the caret position (replacing the selection if there is one). Edit>Paste Previous (keyboard equivalent: F5) will display a dialog box listing the 25 most recently pasted strings. Selecting one will insert it at the caret position. If you want more than 25 strings to be remembered, you can change the number in the Utilities>Global Options dialog box; see the section called The Global Options Dialog Box in Chapter 8 for details.
Figure 3-5. The Paste Previous dialog box
In the X Window System, there are actually two "clipboards"; the so called "primary selection", and the "system clipboard". jEdit only uses the system clipboard. However, the XClipboard plugin (see Chapter 9 for information about installing and using plugins) allows read-only access to the primary selection. |