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human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer user-interface paradigms for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitously, users require the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text. This paradigm has close associations with graphical user interfaces that use pointing devices such as a computer mouse (by drag and drop, for example).

derives from the traditional practice in manuscript-editing whereby people would literally cut paragraphs from a page with scissors and physically paste them onto another page. This practice remained standard as late as the 1960s. Stationery stores formerly sold "editing scissors" with blades long enough to cut an 8-1/2"-wide page. The advent of photocopiers made the practice easier and more flexible.

Lawrence G. Tesler (Larry Tesler) first transferred "cut and paste" into the context of computer-based text-editing while working at Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1974-1975.[1]

Apple Computer widely popularized the computer-based cut-and-paste paradigm through the Lisa (1981) and Macintosh (1984) operating systems and applications. Apple mapped the functionalities to key-combinations consisting of a special modifier key held down while typing the letters X (for cut), C (for copy), and V (for paste), choosing a handful of keyboard sequences to control basic editing operations. The keys involved all cluster together at the left end of the bottom row of the standard QWERTY keyboard, and each key is combined with a control or special modifier key to perform the desired operation:

Computer-based editing can involve very frequent use of cut-and-paste operations. Most software-suppliers provide several methods for performing such tasks, and this can involve (for example) key-combinations, pulldown menus, pop-up menus, and/or toolbar buttons.

1. The user selects the text or file for moving by some method, typically by dragging over the text or file name with the pointing-device or holding down the Shift key while using the arrow keys to move the text cursor

2. The user performs a "cut" operation via key combination, menu, or other means

3. Visibly, "cut" text immediately disappears from its location.

4. Conceptually, the text has now moved to a location often called the clipboard. The clipboard typically remains invisible. On most systems only one clipboard location exists, hence another cut or copy operation overwrites the previously stored information. Many UNIX text-editors provide multiple clipboard entries, as do some Windows clipboard-manager programs such as Microsoft Office.

5. The user selects a location for insertion by some method, typically by clicking at the desired insertion point

6. A paste operation takes place which visibly inserts the clipboard text at the insertion point. (The paste operation does not typically destroy the clipboard text: it remains available in the clipboard and the user can insert additional copies at other points)

Whereas cut-and-paste often takes place with a mouse-equivalent in Windows-like GUI environments, it may also occur entirely from the keyboard, especially in UNIX text editors, such as Pico or vi. The most common kind of cutting and pasting without a mouse involves the entire current line, but it may also involve text after the cursor until the end of the line and other more sophisticated operations.

When a software environment provides cut and paste functionality, a nondestructive operation called copy usually accompanies them; copy places a copy of the selected text in the clipboard without removing it from its original location.

The clipboard usually stays invisible, because the operations of cutting and pasting, while actually independent, usually take place in quick succession, and the user (usually) needs no assistance in understanding the operation or maintaining mental context.

Copy and paste

Copy and-paste refers to the popular, simple method of reproducing text or other data from a source to a destination. It differs from cut and paste in that the original source text or data does not get deleted or removed.

Copying often takes place in graphical user interface systems through use of the key-combinations Ctrl+C (used for killing the running process in UNIX terminals) or Ctrl+Insert (more widely supported[citation needed]); or by using some other method, such as a context menu or a toolbar button. Once one has copied data into the area of memory referred to as the clipboard, one may paste the contents of the clipboard into a destination using the key combinations Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert, or other methods dependent on the system. Macintosh computers use the key combinations ⌘C and ⌘V. The X Window System maintains an additional clipboard containing any currently-selected text; middle-clicking pastes the content of this "selection" clipboard.

The popularity of this method stems from its simplicity and the ease with which users can move data between various applications visually — without resorting to permanent storage.

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No veo nada de malo, si te están contestando la pregunta, y se concretan a sólo responder o copiar lo que preguntaste.

De alguna parte proviene la información que comparten contigo.

Como dice alguien, si citan la fuente, está mejor, todavía.

Bueno este blog es para entretenerte, no tiene mucho que ando por aqui, y me he dado cuenta que muchos colaboradores destacados, no son lo suficientes capacitados para dar comentarios acertados al menos en salud y eso es grave que la persona que pregunta le haga caso, y ademas quien decide que eres listo? tu mismo ya que tu puedes votar para que tu respuesta sea la mejor.

Entonces como no hay alguien de vardad capacitado para respaldar las respuestas, mas que un programa de computadora, que te dice cuando esta bien tu pregunta, y cuendo llegaste a cierto nivel, yo creo que no debe de tomase tan enserio este blog.

Yo me entretengo mucho y si puedo dar algun comentario lo doy.

Saludos

Yo creo que si, y si de preferencia cita la fuente.

mi buen ignorante acabas de hacer lo que criticas tu mismo acabas de copiar y pegar tu pregunta dos veces!!!!!

"eso es copy-paste" jajajaajajaja no es cierto solo queria reirme de tu ignorancia cada vez la neurosis te efecta mas tomate tu diasepan y duerme tranquilo Calderon te cuida jajajaja.

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Pues yo si lo hago pero no es para parecer mas inteligente sino para darte la fuente antes de que me digas de dónde saqué la pregunta o porqué se me ocurrió. Además muchas veces nuestras preguntas surgen por lo que leemos y precisamente para no robarnos otras ideas o querernos pasar de listos, copiamos la fuente de donde lo sacamos...

No tiene nada que ver con citar la fuente con ser terco, que se escribe con C y no con K al igual que Criterio...

Puede ser algo correcto, pero la neta es que esta de gueva leer todo eso que ponen, asi que es mas preferible dar una opinion mas o menos fundamentada a copiar y pegar algo que ni sabemos que dice, no crees?

jajajajaja!!! te digo que Franzis es así. Hasta en inglés cantinflea. El cuando queda en ridículo borra sus respuestas.

Saludos.

No está bien hacer algo para "parecer listo", quienes te frecuenten en YR se darán cuenta si lo sos o no, pero de todas maneras al igual que en la vida misma siempre va a haber alguien que lo haga

si, ya que alguns usuarios lo hacen

xq no??

saludos!!!