1.4 Edit Menu

There are only two items in the Edit menu:

  1. Copy

    Copy is used to copy highlighted TEXT from the screen to your clipboard.

    Follow these steps:

    1. Select an area of the screen by right-clicking on the upper left corner of the area to select and dragging to the lower right corner of the area.
    2. Use the EditCopy menu item to copy the selected text to the clipboard.


  2. Paste

    Pasted is used to type into PLATO -arrow-s the text in the clipboard. Follow these steps:

    1. Copy some ascii text into the clipboard from any source.
    2. While at a PLATO -arrow- use EditPaste


    To enter multiple lines of text you need to be at a location where after an end-of-line is found in your clipboard text PLATO automatically brings up another -arrow-. Two such places are Insert mode in the Notes text editor or PLATO file editor.