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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.
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The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", [1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere.. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [2] [3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year.
I added a short paragraph to the "History" section describing the choice of the Z/X/C/V keys for the undo/cut/copy/paste text editing operations, referring to their position on the standard QWERTY keyboard. I wrote it without directly crediting anyone as the originator of the idea of using those keys, so it should stand on its own regardless of ...
Markdown [9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language . [ 9 ] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging , and also used elsewhere in online forums , collaborative software , documentation pages, and readme files .
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).
Which is just like the cat command). It can also copy files between different disk drives. There are two command-line switches to modify the behaviour when concatenating files: Text mode - This copies the text content of the file, stopping when it reaches the EOF character. copy /a doc1.txt + doc2.txt doc3.txt copy /a *.txt doc3.txt
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