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COMMAND. ACTION. Ctrl/⌘ + C. Select/highlight the text you want to copy, and then press this key combo. Ctrl/⌘ + F. Opens a search box to find a specific word, phrase, or figure on the page
In particular, terminal emulators may provide control sequences that turn bracketed-paste on and off. A text editor may send the control sequence to turn on bracketed-paste at startup, or in response to a user command. Thereafter, characters typed by the user normally will be forwarded to the text editor by the terminal emulator normally.
Larry Tesler created the concept of cut, copy, paste, and undo for human-computer interaction while working at Xerox PARC to control text editing.During the development of the Macintosh it was decided that the cut, paste, copy and undo would be used frequently and assigned them to the ⌘-Z (Undo), ⌘-X (Cut), ⌘-C (Copy), and ⌘-V (Paste).
The earliest editors (designed for teleprinter terminals) provided keyboard commands to delineate a contiguous region of text, then delete or move it. Since moving a region of text requires first removing it from its initial location and then inserting it into its new location, various schemes had to be invented to allow for this multi-step process to be specified by the user.
In many GUI environments, including Microsoft Windows and most desktop environments based on the X Window System, and in applications such as word processing software running in those environments, control-V can be used to paste text or other content (if supported) from the clipboard at the current cursor position.
Screenshot of a sample Bash session in GNOME Terminal 3, Fedora 15 Screenshot of Windows PowerShell 1.0, running on Windows Vista. A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command lines.
A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal , the term terminal covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces.