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It allows users to move the text cursor, search the command history, control a kill ring (a more flexible version of a copy/paste clipboard) and use tab completion on a text terminal. As a cross-platform library, readline allows applications on various systems to exhibit identical line-editing behavior.
vi (pronounced as distinct letters, / ˌ v iː ˈ aɪ / ⓘ) [1] is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by (and thus standardized by) the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.
Vim (/ v ɪ m / ⓘ; [5] vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi.Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga [6] and released a version to the public in 1991.
A "manual" way of editing in an external GUI text editor is to use copy and paste.Some text editors do not support, or may not be set up to support, various special characters—Chinese characters, non-Latin letters, mathematical symbols, and so on—they are typically replaced with a character that renders as a square.
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 clipboard in macOS holds one item in multiple available formats. The contents of the clipboard can be viewed by selecting the Show Clipboard menu item from the Finder's Edit menu. The raw data and the stored formats can be seen using the ClipboardViewer. [21] Using the following commands the clipboard can be accessed from the command line ...
1. Mouse over the folder you want to add a subfolder to. 2. Click the Folder Options icon . 3. Select Create subfolder. 4. Enter a new subfolder name. 5. Click the Save icon.
On most Linux desktop environments, equivalent tools – such as gucharmap (GNOME) or kcharselect (KDE) – are available. [9] Generally these tools let the user "copy" the selected characters into the clipboard, and then paste them into the document, rather than pretending to directly type them.