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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.
Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique for transferring data through a computer's user interface .
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.
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.
selecting a block of text to e.g. change size/font or copy to the clipboard, by holding shift and pressing the arrow cursor or other navigation keys, which commonly extends a coloured or inverse-video highlight over the selected area; inserting and deleting text and control characters at or from an arbitrary point, including cut and paste functions
Bracketed paste is used to resolve the following issue, commonly encountered when editing code in a terminal text editor (such as Vim or Emacs).These text editors often include autoindent functionality, which causes indentation to be added automatically when the user presses the enter key at the end of a line.
Copy-and-paste programming, sometimes referred to as just pasting, is the production of highly repetitive computer programming code, as produced by copy and paste operations. It is primarily a pejorative term; those who use the term are often implying a lack of programming competence and ability to create abstractions.
In emacs it does a paste action (known as "yank"). [4] Emacs uses Ctrl+/ for Undo and Redo. In vi and vim it scrolls the display up one line. [5] In the pico and nano text editors this shortcut scrolls one page up. [6] [7] In SAP GUI it enters block-select mode. [citation needed]