BOX COPY Copies a box, without removing it, so you can paste it elsewhere. Steps: 1. Select or find the text to copy. Typically, you use BOX SELECT. 2. Use BOX COPY----or if SET BOX SELECT is in effect, you can use STORE TEXT or COPY. A message tells you the copying is completed. 3. To paste the text elsewhere, use BOX PASTE. Usage notes: o With a standard, linear range, BOX COPY uses the start and end of the range as diagonally opposite corners. Thus, you can use BOX COPY with SELECT, FIND, or WILDCARD FIND---see help on Ranges And Boxes. o Copying a box converts tab characters to spaces, to the right of the box or overlapping the box (see help on CONVERT TABS) and adds spaces (if necessary) to the start and end of lines in the copied box to keep its rectangular shape. o Depending on your setting, the copied text is stored in the INSERT HERE buffer or the DECwindows clipboard, replacing what you previously cut or copied to that storage area. Default is SET NOCLIPBOARD. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Box-editing operations are slow with very long box selections, | | particularly if buffer-change journaling is in effect (which | | is the default). | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Related topics: Ranges And Boxes BOX CUT BOX PASTE BOX SELECT SELECT SET BOX SELECT SET CLIPBOARD