Selecting Code And Text Blocks; Saving Text To The Multiple-Entry Clipboard; Setting The Clip Entry Limit - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION STUDIO 5-USING COLDFUSION 5 STUDIO Use Manual

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Selecting Code and Text Blocks

You can use the mouse and standard Windows keyboard commands to highlight
sections of a document, or use the following shortcuts to quickly select and edit tag
blocks:
To select an entire code block, press Shift+Ctrl and double-click in either the start
or end tag.
To select a range of code and text, click at the start of the selection, then press
Shift and click at the end of the selection.
To select a tag, hold the Ctrl key and double-click .

Saving Text to the Multiple-Entry Clipboard

The multiple-entry clipboard lets you store multiple text blocks in the Clipboard and
paste them as needed. To activate this feature, you must perform at least one copy
command .

Setting the clip entry limit

By default, the clipboard window stores a maximum of 36 entries. This can be
changed in the Options > Settings > Editor pane. When the maximum number of
clipboard entries is reached, the next copy operation deletes the oldest clipboard
entry and adds the new copied text to the bottom of the clipboard entry window.
The following buttons are available on the Edit toolbar for this feature:
Show Clipboard Displays a drop-down window of copied clip icons. As you
mouse over a clip icon, a hint window displays the first few lines of the clip's text.
To paste the clip into the editor at the current cursor position, click on a an icon .
Paste All Pastes all the current clips into the editor at the current position. Clips
are pasted in the order in which they were copied.
Clear Clipboard Deletes all current clips.
Customizing clipboard commands
You can add the clipboard buttons to custom toolbars using the Options >
Customize menu command. The buttons are located in the Edit toolbutton section.
Keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to these features, as well. The shortcut
descriptions are Show clipboard, Paste all, and Clear clipboard.
Chapter 6 Editing Pages