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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. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...

  4. Copypasta - Wikipedia

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    Copypasta containing controversial ideas or lengthy rants are often posted for humorous purposes, to provoke reactions from those unaware that the posted text is a meme. History [ edit ] The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term " copy and paste ", [1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere.

  5. Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, do not copy text from other sources. Doing so usually constitutes both a copyright violation and plagiarism (exceptions are discussed below). This general rule includes copying material from websites of charity or non-profit organizations, educational, scholarly and news publications, and all sources without a copyright notice.

  6. Wikipedia:Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    INTEXT: Add in-text attribution when you copy or closely paraphrase another author's words or flow of thought, unless the material lacks creativity or originates from a free source. INTEGRITY : Maintain text–source integrity: place your inline citations so that it is clear which source supports which point, or use citation bundling and ...

  7. 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.

  8. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe 's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.

  9. 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 ...