Zen and the Art of Cut, Copy and Paste

 

To appreciate the nuance of cut, copy and paste, one must first understand The Clipboard.  Alas, even the most advanced pupils merely scrape the surface of this awesome mystery.  However, once one accepts The Clipboard as the Middle Way to cut, copy and paste, effortless will it seem.

 

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Cut

To cut is the Two-fold Path of copy and delete.

 

Copy

A reflection of what was, is and yet to be is the essence of copy.

                             

Paste

To master the art of paste, one transposes a reflection onto reality.

Paste Special

Further manipulating reflections before one transposes them takes true skill.

 

Screen Capturing

Capturing a snapshot, an instant in time and space, gives one pause for further reflection.

 

 

 

How to Read this Document.

When you see something like Ctrl+C that means to hold down the Control key (often labeled ‘Ctrl’) while pressing ‘C.’

 

 

 

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