Working with Text
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Selecting and
Editing Text
The basic text-editing operations are
n
Select.
Highlights text to edit, cut, copy,
or format.
n
Cut and paste.
Removes (cuts) content
and places it in the clipboard so that it
can be moved (pasted) elsewhere. Cut-
ting deletes the content from its original
location.
n
Copy and paste.
Copies content to the
clipboard so that it can be duplicated
(pasted) elsewhere. Copying leaves the
original content intact—that is, nothing
visible happens.
Apps have no manual Save command.
Changes are saved automatically every few
seconds, or when you switch away from or
close the app.
You can select any portion of text within an
editable area and then edit it by typing or
by using the standard cut, copy, and paste
operations.
The Clipboard
The
clipboard
is the invisible area of
memory where the Nexus stores cut
or copied content until it’s overwritten
when you cut or copy something else.
This scheme lets you paste the same
thing multiple times in different places.
You can transfer content from one app
to another, provided that the second app
can read content generated by the first.
Note that you can’t paste something
that you’ve deleted (as opposed to cut),
because the Nexus doesn’t place the
deleted content in the clipboard.
