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PuTTY pastes the terminal selection rather than the clipboard
PuTTY/KiTTY/etc. have an option to bring up a right-click menu with a Paste option in it, rather than instantly pasting.
The problem with this is that if there is a selection in the terminal then ...
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What is the correct way to move a file in Windows?
We had an issue at my work where I cut and pasted some files. Immediately when I did it, a ton of files were lost. I've been working in IT for 10+ years. I know how to cut and paste a file. Well, ...
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Is there a browser extension that bypasses restrictions of pasting passwords?
As one example out of many, if you go to https://appleid.apple.com and click to manage your account, you can't paste your password in the password field. There is some javascript that prevents that.
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Tool for collecting, managing, copying & pasting clipboard snippets for windows ( or linux )
I think of some simple way getting stuff into clipboard. Instead of digging into files all the time, I would like to have something like this:
When I would move the mouse on the right edge of my ...
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How to paste table from MS Excel to Wolfram Mathematica?
When I am pasting a region from MS Excel, which contains multiple numbers, to Mathematica, I am getting just a long plain sequence of digits, i.e. one integer number in Mathematica.
How to have a ...
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My copy & paste no longer works on my laptop [closed]
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copy and paste in windows XP just stops working
I have already done full AV and malware scans and I am clear. Using mouse right-click and/or keyboard commands it gives ...
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Pasting into Vista console windows broke, why?
I use Windows Vista x64 and regularly use command line windows, for instance CMD.EXE. I have enabled QuickEdit Mode (and Insert Mode and AutoComplete), to be able to quickly copy and paste text from ...
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Multiple paste after a cut in Windows 7
Today I found out that Win7 doesn't support multiple pasting of files after cutting them. So, if you have a file A.ext and you want to cut it from its folder and place it in two different folders, you ...
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How to copy & paste from a cell in Libre Office Calc
I have an Excel format spreadsheet that was sent to me by a colleague. It's a list of test usernames for an app we're building.
When I try to copy one of the usernames or passwords from the cell in ...
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VIm copy & paste between apps as a non-superuser
I'm using a work computer so i don't have a root access.
I've tried "+y, "*y, set clipboard=unnamed. It looks like my vim doesn't support +clipboard (version 7.0).
I'm using Linux Centos 5 so ...
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Firefox Plugin or anyother to List shortcuts
Inspired by usage of SE sites, I frequently have to flag Off topic post and write a comment telling OP to make the post on a different SE site. Usually, I go to the bottom of the page to retrieve the ...
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MS Word document gone cut paste error
One of my colleagues has experienced a strange occurence using cut and paste.
A MS Word file was cut out with CTRL + X and a new folder was selected to paste it with CTRL + V. The file was no longer ...
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Transparent image when pasting clipped image on Gmail
When i copy a portion of the screen into the clipboard and try to paste on Gmail, i just get a transparent image of the same size of my selection.
If I try to paste it into another app, it shows the ...
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Vim: how to paste a block of text at the end of multiple lines?
Say I have a block of text like this:
// Comment1
// Comment2
// Comment3
And I want to append each of these lines to the end of 3 corresponding lines of code:
foo = 1;
bar = 2;
baz = 3;
So ...
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Pasting single row data into merged cells
I'm using Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 14.1.0 (on Mac OS X 10.6.7.).
What I'm looking to do, is paste a column of single row data into a column with cells that are 3 rows high each. I want each data ...
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How to copy/paste properly in Mac OS X?
For some reason when I copy a file from one folder and paste to a target folder (highlighted) it pastes the file several levels up, instead of in the target folder. I then have search up or down for ...
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Is there a key combination to cycle through clipboard history when pasting in windows?
In Visual Studio, I can cycle through my clipboard history by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V rather than CTRL+V. I believe it's called a clipboard ring. But that feature doesn't seem to exist outside of Visual ...
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keyboard shortcut for pasting in gnu screen
how can I paste the text in my system clipboard using screen over an ssh connection with Putty?
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How do I disable middle-click-pasting functionality in MacVim?
I've been accidentally pasting lately, would like to remove this functionality. Bonus points if I can re-assign the input to another function.
Mac OS 10.6.6, MacVim 7.3
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Embedding an image into Email without increasing the size to MBs
If I paste an image from PDF or Powerpoint, as an embedded object to appear in an email (eg, an invitation) - it blows the size out to 2MB etc. How do I paste it so the picture is of good quality but ...
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free cmd/powershell replacement with normal copy paste
I don't know why, but I hate pressing ctrl+v and getting ^V in the powershell and cmd windows.
I always do it and then I have to back space it, out find my mouse, then right click, and select paste. ...
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Merging files line by line in dos (paste in *nix)
In dos, is there a way to merge a set of files so that for instance
1.txt
a
b
c
and
2.txt
1
2
3
becomes
merged.txt
a 1
b 2
c 3
Just like the paste command on *nix systems
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Utility to insert text when a hot key is pressed
I am looking for an utility that inserts (pastes) text into the active application, when a hot-key is pressed.
The utility I am looking for should allow to use of tokens in the text (in example ...
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Cannot paste web page images in Word 2010
I am unable to paste web page images into word 2010 - Selecting some text and images on a web page and pasting into word just results in a box on the page. The following question ...
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Copy & paste a cell along with its name in Excel
Is there a way to copy a cell that also has a "name", and paste it somewhere else so that the new cell also has the same "name"?
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Clipboard: Copy image, get path back when pasting in file input
First question here on superuser.
I sometimes get ad-hoc bug reports from customers, which I need to transfer to our online bug tracker. Works fine for text, but pictures are tedious.
I'm looking ...
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How can I paste something at the end of the line in VIM?
How can I paste some text that I yanked at the end of the line? Currently I'm doing it by pressing $p. Is there any way to do this with a single keystroke?
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Vim: Copy selection
Having a chunk of text selected in Vim's visual mode, I'd like to copy that to the system's clipboard (be it the primary or X11's). Is there an easy solution for this? Obviously, a simple y doesn't do ...
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Excel transpose via paste
I want to transpose data in Excel. Normally, I cut the cells I need, and use paste special -> transpose. However, sometimes when I do paste special, a box comes up asking me if I want to use unicode ...
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Outlook 2003 adds extra line feeds in pasted text
This is driving me nuts: every single time I paste some text from Word or Wordpad into Outlook 2003, it ads extra blank lines. For example, if I paste:
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Outlook ...
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Using Ctrl+V to paste unformatted text by default in OpenOffice.org's Calc
Is there a way to change the Ctrl+V command in OpenOffice.org Calc to paste unformatted text?
There is Ctrl + Shift + V, which puts up a dialog. But that is too much work. I just want to change the ...
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What is the best Windows Multiple Buffer Manager that supports pasting and custom shortcut keys?
I'm looking for an app that would let me specify a bunch of pregenerated replies and/or strings that I'd be able to paste ideally like this:
by assigning specific shortcut combos to specific ...
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Copy rectangle selection in firefox
How do I select a rectangular area of text in firefox? My goal is to copy some columns from a html table.
I would like to select only the b and c columns (b1,c1,b2,c2 values) for this table:
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Windows XP: Can I paste plain text by default?
I regularly copy and paste text between spreadsheets, emails, browser windows, etc. I can't think of a single time when I've wanted to keep the formatting from the source text.
I already know about ...
