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9 Click Find to perform the search.
For detailed information about the search options available, refer to the KFind online
help.
For advanced searches, you may want to use search patterns or regular expressions.
KRegExpEditor offers search options based on regular expressions. You can install
KRegExpEditor with YaST as the package kdeutils3-extra. For more information
about search patterns and the use of wild cards or regular expressions, refer to Sec-
tion "Getting Started with the Bash Shell" (Chapter 15, Working with the Shell, ↑De-
ployment Guide).
1.7 Moving Text between Applications
To copy text to the clipboard and insert it again, former MS Windows users automati-
cally try the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V , which often works in Linux as
well. Copying and inserting texts is even easier in Linux: to copy a text to the clipboard,
just select the text with the mouse then move the mouse cursor to the position to which
to insert the text. Click the middle button on the mouse to insert the text (on a two-
button mouse, press both mouse buttons simultaneously).
With some applications, if a text is already selected in the application where you want
to insert the text, this method does not work because the text in the clipboard is over-
written by the other selected text. For such cases, the KDE application Klipper is very
useful. Klipper "remembers" the last entries you have moved to the clipboard. By default,
Klipper is started when KDE is loaded and appears as a clipboard icon in the panel. To
view the clipboard contents, click the Klipper icon. The most recent entry is listed on
top and is marked as active with a black check mark. If an extensive text was copied
to Klipper, only the first line of the text is displayed.
To copy an older text fragment from Klipper to an application, select it by clicking it,
move the mouse pointer to the target application, then middle-click. For further infor-
mation about Klipper, see the Klipper online help.
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