10th February 2000
This trick is truly going to be tricky, so pay attention; it's easier shown than explained. You'll need to be using a text editor with a single-level undo feature for this to work. By now, you've mastered the art of cutting, copying, and pasting. You ain't Yoda yet. Try this: copy text selection A and paste it over selection B. Undo that operation, and while that text is still selected, copy it to the clipboard. Now, undo THAT operation and you'll have the changed the text (from B to A) as well as copied a new string (B) to the clipboard. Effectively, this allows you to overwrite text (B) and allow you to copy it (B) with the minimum amount of hassle. Where is this practical? When you've got to flip-flop passages without skipping a beat (between two fields, pages, etc.).