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Figure 2.15
The extended clipboard stores your
previous clipboard selections,
allowing you to choose from several
selections when pasting.
The list at the top of the dialog contains one-line summaries of your past clip-
board entries, with the most recent entry at the top. You can select any clipping
and view its contents in the preview window below the list. To paste an entry,
select it and press
Enter
or click the
OK
button, or double-click the entry as a
shortcut. The extended clipboard format is also supported by some native appli-
cations, which can share their data with
IDEA
and vice versa.
You can compare the most recent contents of the clipboard with the cur-
rent selection by selecting
Compare with Clipboard
from the editor's
context menu. This command launches the diff tool viewer, which is de-
scribed in more detail in chapter 8.
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You can control the maximum number of stored clipboard entries through the
editor settings under the
Limits
group. When you reach your limit, the oldest
entry is removed from the list. You can manually edit the list of items by selecting
any entry and pressing the
Delete
key to remove it from the clipboard.
You can use
Cut
,
Copy
, and
Paste
with the files and packages in your
Project
view. A cut and paste is analogous to moving a file, whereas a
copy and paste creates a new file using the copied one as a template.
These operations are shortcuts for the
Move
and
Copy
refactorings,
which are discussed in more detail in chapter 9.
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Even the
Copy
command has a few new tricks in 5.0. For starters, X-Windows users
will appreciate that
IDEA
now supports standard X-Windows style copy and paste
actions under that environment. You highlight the text to be copied, switch to the
location where you want to copy, and press the middle mouse button to paste.
