After you have marked a block of text, you can manipulate it in
various ways. The most common ones are described below.
Copying a marked block
Move the cursor to the location in the file where the marked text will be copied.
Select Selected from the pop-up menu or from the Edit menu.
Select one of the following:
Copy selection - A copy of the marked
block is inserted at the cursor position.
Overlay with selection - A copy of the
block is placed below the cursor, overwriting any existing text.
Alternatively, position the cursor and press Alt+C to copy,
or Alt+Z if you want to copy the block over existing text.
Deleting a marked block
Select Selected from the pop-up menu or from the Edit menu.
Select Delete selection to delete the marked block.
Alternatively, press Alt+D to delete a marked block.
Moving a marked block
Move the cursor to the desired location.
Select Selected from the pop-up menu or from the Edit menu.
Select Move selection to move the block to the cursor position.
Alternatively, position the cursor and press Alt+M to move
the selected block.
Note: The availability of the menu items indicated above
depends on the application implementing the editor.
The keyboard operations indicated are effective only in certain
editor profiles.
