Editing Text
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With the Text editor, you can cut, copy, and paste selected text using menu commands or drag-and-drop operations. You can also undo and redo selected editing actions.
The Text editor provides the following editing commands:
Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting text
Undoing and redoing editing actions
Using the drag-and-drop feature
Specifying column blocks for editing
All editing commands require a selection in order to work. Some of the commands can make a selection based on the current cursor location. Command names that begin with an object (such as WordCapitalize) assume that object for a default selection; otherwise, the default selection will be the character adjacent to the cursor. For example, the Delete command removes the character to the right of the cursor if there is no selection.
Note You can enable the Copy command to work on the current line even if there is no selection. From the Tools menu, choose Options. Select the Compatibility tab, and click the Enable copy without selection option. This enables the Copy command to work on the current line if there is no selection.
When you cut text from the file, the text is removed from your file and placed on the Clipboard. When you delete text from the file, the text is removed from your file, and the Clipboard is not used. All Windows applications share the same Clipboard. Commands that use the Clipboard overwrite whatever was previously placed onto the Clipboard by other commands or other Windows applications. This single-Clipboard behavior is true even when emulating an editor (such as Epsilon) that supports multiple Clipboards.