Questions tagged [paste]
The paste tag is to be used for issues relating to the paste portion of copy/paste operations.
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Eclipse copy/paste entire line keyboard shortcut
Anyone know the keyboard shortcut to copy/paste a line into a new line in Eclipse, without having to highlight the entire line?
ctrl-alt-down turns my whole screen upside down (I'm on windows). ...
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Catch paste input
I'm looking for a way to sanitize input that I paste into the browser, is this possible to do with jQuery?
I've managed to come up with this so far:
$(this).live(pasteEventName, function(e) {
// ...
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Combine several images horizontally with Python
I am trying to horizontally combine some JPEG images in Python.
Problem
I have 3 images - each is 148 x 95 - see attached. I just made 3 copies of the same image - that is why they are the same.
My ...
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Get current clipboard content? [closed]
I'd like to know a way to make my script detect the content of the clipboard and paste it into a text field when the page is opened, with no input from the user. How can it be done?
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Getting strange characters when pasting into my iterm2 terminal
I'm using iterm2 v 3.0.15 on Mac Sierra. I'm having trouble cutting and pasting from other places (e.g. text on a web page) into my terminal. For instance, I highlight some text from a web page, ...
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How do I paste multi-line bash codes into terminal and run it all at once?
I need to paste a multi-line bash code into terminal, but whenever I do, each line gets run as a separate command as soon as it gets pasted.
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Paste multiple columns together
I have a bunch of columns in a dataframe which I want to paste together (seperated by "-") as follows:
data <- data.frame('a' = 1:3,
'b' = c('a','b','c'),
'...
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Replace word with contents of paste buffer?
I need to do a bunch of word replacements in a file and want to do it with a vi command, not an EX command such as :%s///g.
I know that this is the typical way one replaces the word at the current ...
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Paste multiple times
What is the best way replace multiple lines with the contents of the clipboard?
The problem I'm having is when I yank a line and paste it over another line the "yank" is replaced with the line I ...
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jQuery bind to Paste Event, how to get the content of the paste
I have a jquery token tagit plugin and I want to bind to the paste event to add items correctly.
I'm able to bind to the paste event like so:
.bind("paste", paste_input)
...
function ...
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How to paste to Vim when using PuTTY
I am using PuTTY to connect a remote host and editing via Vim. I meet a trouble when I try to paste something to Vim. That is, I copy something to the clipboard in my local host and want to paste it ...
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Notepad++ How do I insert a column of data?
So I am trying to take a column of text data and replace that data with edited information. I am trying to manipulate values in a fixed width file. I want to leave the rows intact. I know I can hold ...
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How to disable pasting in a TextField in Swift?
I've got a TextField with a numberPad and the function runs only if it contains numbers.
The user will crash the app if they paste letters in the TextField and click OK.
How can I disable pasting in ...
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How to paste a string on each element of a vector of strings using apply in R?
I have a vector of strings.
d <- c("Mon","Tues","Wednes","Thurs","Fri","Satur","Sun")
for which I want to paste the string "day" on each element of the vector in a way similar to this.
week <-...
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Is there a way to paste together the elements of a vector in R without using a loop?
Say there's a vector x:
x <- c("a", " ", "b")
and I want to quickly turn this into a single string "a b". Is there a way to do this without a loop? I know with a loop I could do this:
y <- ""
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suppress NAs in paste()
Regarding the bounty
Ben Bolker's paste2-solution produces a "" when the strings that are pasted contains NA's in the same position. Like this,
> paste2(c("a","b", "c", NA), c("A","B", NA, NA))
[...
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Intercept paste event in Javascript
Is there a way to intercept the paste event in JavaScript and get the raw value, change it, and set the associated DOM element's value to be the modified value?
For instance, I have a user trying to ...
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Pass a vector of variables into lm() formula
I was trying to automate a piece of my code so that programming become less tedious.
Basically I was trying to do a stepwise selection of variables using fastbw() in the rms package. I would like to ...
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How to use reference variables by character string in a formula?
In the minimal example below, I am trying to use the values of a character string vars in a regression formula. However, I am only able to pass the string of variable names ("v2+v3+v4") to the formula,...
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Equivalent of Paste R to Python
I am a new python afficionado.
For R users, there is one function : paste that helps to concatenate two or more variables in a dataframe. It's very useful.
For example
Suppose that I have this ...
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Paste multiple times in Vim
This maybe really simple, But I tried searching and I ended up with stuff like copying multiple lines, cut and paste multiple lines etc. What am looking for is pasting a single line multiple times in ...
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Difference between paste() and paste0()
Being new to R, can someone please explain the difference between paste() and paste0(), what I had understood from some post is that
paste0("a", "b") === paste("a", "b", sep="")
Even I tried ...
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Concatenate rows of a data frame
I would like to take a data frame with characters and numbers, and concatenate all of the elements of the each row into a single string, which would be stored as a single element in a vector. As an ...
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How to paste columns from separate files using bash?
Using the following data:
$cat date1.csv
Bob,2013-06-03T17:18:07
James,2013-06-03T17:18:07
Kevin,2013-06-03T17:18:07
$cat date2.csv
2012-12-02T18:30:31
2012-12-02T18:28:37
2013-06-01T12:16:05
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How windows handle the clipboard interface with Xming?
My question comes from a problem:
I Use Xming on Windows 7 to connect to a Linux host (through PuTTY) in order to start and display a gnome-terminal.
I have some troubles using the Windows clipboard:
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How to paste to Emacs from clipboard on OSX?
This might be extraordinarily simple, but I am playing with Emacs (22.1.1) and I can't get it to paste text in the clipboard using Control-Y.
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Concatenate row-wise across specific columns of dataframe
I have a data frame with columns that, when concatenated (row-wise) as a string, would allow me to partition the data frame into a desired form.
> str(data)
'data.frame': 680420 obs. of 10 ...
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Concatenate numerical values in a string
I would like to store this output in a string:
> x=1:5
> cat("hi",x)
hi 1 2 3 4 5
So I use paste, but I obtain this different result:
> paste("hi",x)
[1] "hi 1" "hi 2" "hi 3" "hi 4" "hi 5"
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Pasting from SQL Server Management Studio to Excel concatenates columns
I'm trying to paste my query results from Mgmt Studio to Excel, but for whatever reason the columns in Mgmt Studio are concatenated into a single column when pasted into Excel.
This doesn't happen to ...
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Paste/Collapse in R
I'm confused by paste, and thought it was just simple concatenating.
whales <- c("C","D","C","D","D")
quails <- c("D","D","D","D","D")
results <-paste(whales, quails, collapse = '')
Why ...
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Looping over pairs of values in bash [duplicate]
I have 10 text files and I want to paste each file with its pair, such that I have 5 total files.
I tried the following:
for i in 4_1 5_1 6_1 7_1 8_1
do
for j in 4_2 5_2 6_2 7_2 8_2
do
paste ${i}....
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jquery how to get the pasted content
I have a little trouble catching a pasted text into my input:
<input type="text" id="myid" val="default">
$('#myid').on('paste',function(){
console.log($('#myid').val());
});
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How to paste CSV data to Windows Clipboard with C#
What I'm trying to accomplish
My app generates some tabular data
I want the user to be able to launch Excel and click "paste" to place the data as cells in Excel
Windows accepts a format called "...
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How to paste on click? It works in google docs
I want to be able to initiate real paste event when user clicks. I can understand this may be a security issue, because if any webpage had access to users clipboard, that would be bad. So I thought ...
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Clean Microsoft Word Pasted Text using JavaScript
I am using a 'contenteditable' <div/> and enabling PASTE.
It is amazing the amount of markup code that gets pasted in from a clipboard copy from Microsoft Word. I am battling this, and have ...
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Why is pasting a long one-liner very slow in Vim's insert mode?
My Macbook was stuck yesterday, when I tried to paste 1200 lines of 80 characters to Vim. It was much faster to download the file, and not to paste the text.
I have thought that this problem might be ...
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in R, can I stop print(cat("")) from returning NULL? and why does cat("foo") return foo>
If I enter
print(cat(""))
I get
NULL
I want to use cat() to print out the progress of an R script, but I don't understand why it is returning NULL at the end of all of my concatenated strings, ...
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javascript cut/copy/paste to clipboard: how did Google solve it?
Yes, this question has been asked again and again: how to copy and paste from and to the system clipboard with javascript? I have found only partial solutions and hacks so far.
The reason that it has ...
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Can't paste all text in wpf textbox
I have a simple window and textbox, when i try to paste this code to the textbox
[Code]General : sample.avi
Format : AVI
Length : 380 MiB for 16mn 57s 320ms
Video #0 ...
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Copy from browser paste to netbeans not working
Copy from browser paste to netbeans not working. How could this be happen?
When I try to paste notepad, it is working, but when try to netbeans it is not working? I am in shock
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Explanation for sprintf("%03d", 7) functionality?
I am trying to write functions in R where the aim is to read multiple .csv files. They are named as 001.csv, 002.csv, ... 332.csv.
With paste I managed to construct names 1.csv, 2.csv and so on, but ...
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Split a character vector into individual characters? (opposite of paste or stringr::str_c)
An incredibly basic question in R yet the solution isn't clear.
How to split a vector of character into its individual characters, i.e. the opposite of paste(..., sep='') or stringr::str_c() ?
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Paste a HTML table into Excel, how to keep the line break in cell
I have a simple html table, for example, just one cell, but when I copy the dom node, and paste it into excel, it will be recognize as two rows, How to make Excel get the correct paste data.
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How do you copy/paste from the clipboard in C++?
I'm still a C++ newbie who has only recently learned some file manipulation. I looked it up online and the codes given are way beyond my current skill. Is there a simple way to do this, or are there ...
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selecting in visual mode to paste outside vim window
I need to paste some selected block in visual mode to outside of vim. Currently I need to select this block manually from mouse to paste outside of vim.
As selecting texts in visual mode is easier ,...
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How to get Registry().settings during Pyramid app startup time?
I am used to develop web applications on Django and gunicorn.
In case of Django, any application modules in a Django application can get deployment settings through django.conf.settings. The "...
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What is paste script?
I'm trying to understand what paste script and paster are. The website is far from clear.
I used paster to generate pre-made layouts for projects, but I don't get the big picture.
As far as I ...
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Pasting from the clipboard and automatically toggling ":set paste"
When I paste things from the clipboard, they're normally (always) multilined, and in those cases (and those cases only), I'd like :set paste to be triggered, since otherwise the tabbing will increase ...
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Paste an image into a web page
Is it in any way possible, using javascript (jquery), html (5) to get a pasted image.
e.a a user click the printscreen button, opens a web page, clicks CTRL+V and the image is uploaded to the server (...
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vimrc addition to toggle :set paste
I'm looking for a way to bind a key combination (something like leader+p) to toggle :set paste on and off with the same key combo.
I know I can :set paste and :set paste! and can bind these to 2 ...
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