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  2. Cut, copy, and paste - Wikipedia

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    These are the standard shortcuts: Control-Z (or ⌘ Command + Z) to undo. Control-X (or ⌘ Command + X) to cut. Control-C (or ⌘ Command + C) to copy. Control-V (or ⌘ Command + V) to paste. The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM ...

  3. Copy-and-paste programming - Wikipedia

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    Copy-and-paste programming. 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.

  4. File copying - Wikipedia

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    File copying. In digital file management, copying is a file operation that creates a new file which has the same content as an existing file. Computer operating systems include file copying methods to users; operating systems with graphical user interfaces ( GUIs) often providing copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop methods of file copying.

  5. Web scraping - Wikipedia

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    Human copy-and-paste The simplest form of web scraping is manually copying and pasting data from a web page into a text file or spreadsheet. Sometimes even the best web-scraping technology cannot replace a human's manual examination and copy-and-paste, and sometimes this may be the only workable solution when the websites for scraping ...

  6. Clipboard (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The clipboard is usually temporary and unnamed, and its contents reside in the computer's RAM. [1] The clipboard provides an application programming interface by which programs can specify cut, copy and paste operations. It is left to the program to define methods for the user to command these operations, which may include keybindings and menu ...

  7. Copying - Wikipedia

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    Copying. Copying is the duplication of information or an artifact based on an instance of that information or artifact, and not using the process that originally generated it. With analog forms of information, copying is only possible to a limited degree of accuracy, which depends on the quality of the equipment used and the skill of the operator.

  8. Wikipedia:Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    An easy way to test for plagiarism of online sources is to copy and paste passages into a search engine. Exact matches, or near matches, may be plagiarism. When running such tests, be aware that other websites reuse content from Wikipedia. A list of identified websites which do so is maintained at Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. It is usually ...

  9. Transposable element - Wikipedia

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    A bacterial DNA transposon. A transposable element ( TE, transposon, or jumping gene) is a nucleic acid sequence in DNA that can change its position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size. [1] Transposition often results in duplication of the same genetic material.