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  20 <h2 class="sectionedit741"><a name="moving_and_copying" id="moving_and_copying">Moving and copying</a></h2>
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  25 <h3 class="sectionedit742"><a name="moving_objects" id="moving_objects">Moving objects</a></h3>
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  28 <p>
  29 There are three main ways to move an object:
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  32 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Left-click on an object and drag it.  If it is <a href="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html">selected</a>, everything else that is currently selected will be moved with it.</div>
  33 </li>
  34 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects and press <strong>&lt;M&gt;</strong> to begin moving, and then left-click to place them in their new position.</div>
  35 </li>
  36 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects, and then use <strong>Edit→Move Mode</strong>.  Left click once to begin moving the objects, and again to finish.</div>
  37 </li>
  38 </ol>
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  40 <p>
  41 Any nets connected to objects that you are moving will stretch (or “rubberband”) so that they stay connected.  You can turn this behaviour on and off using <strong>Options→Toggle net rubberband</strong>.
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  44 <p>
  45 If you hold <strong>&lt;Ctrl&gt;</strong> while moving, the movement will be constrained to be only horizontal or vertical.
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  49 <!-- EDIT742 SECTION "Moving objects" [140-910] -->
  50 <h3 class="sectionedit743"><a name="rotating_and_mirroring_objects" id="rotating_and_mirroring_objects">Rotating and mirroring objects</a></h3>
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  53 <p>
  54 You can also rotate and mirror objects or groups of objects.
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  57 <p>
  58 To rotate the selection 90° anticlockwise around the current position of the mouse pointer, press <strong>&lt;E R&gt;</strong>.  If you are in the process of placing an object on the page (for example, while moving it), you can also rotate by middle-clicking.
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  61 <p>
  62 To flip the selection left-to-right around the mouse pointer, press <strong>&lt;E I&gt;</strong>.
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  67 <h3 class="sectionedit744"><a name="copying_objects_on_the_page" id="copying_objects_on_the_page">Copying objects on the page</a></h3>
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  70 <p>
  71 When you have objects selected, you can make a quick copy by pressing <strong>&lt;E C&gt;</strong>, and then left-clicking to place the copied objects.  You can right-click while placing to cancel the copy.  You can also make a quick copy by selecting <strong>Edit→Copy mode</strong> from the menu, in which case you must then left-click to begin copying and again to finish.
  72 </p>
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  74 <p>
  75 If you need to make more than one copy, you can use <strong>Edit→Multiple Copy Mode</strong>, or press <strong>&lt;E Y&gt;</strong>.  This is like a normal quick copy, except you can left-click multiple times to make several copies of the selection, and right-click to finish copying.
  76 </p>
  77
  78 <p>
  79 If you hold <strong>&lt;Ctrl&gt;</strong> while making quick copies, the copy will be constrained to be in line with the original either horizontally or vertically.
  80 </p>
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  83 <!-- EDIT744 SECTION "Copying objects on the page" [1338-2125] -->
  84 <h3 class="sectionedit745"><a name="copying_and_pasting_the_clipboard" id="copying_and_pasting_the_clipboard">Copying and pasting the clipboard</a></h3>
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  87 <p>
  88 You can copy and paste selected objects using the <em>system clipboard</em>.  To copy the selection to the system clipboard, select <strong>Edit→Copy</strong>, or to remove it from the page and put it in the clipboard, <strong>Edit→Cut</strong>.
  89 </p>
  90
  91 <p>
  92 If the clipboard contains gEDA schematic or symbol data, you can place it on the page with <strong>Edit→Paste</strong>.  While placing the clipboard data, you can right-click to cancel.
  93 </p>
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  97 <h3 class="sectionedit746"><a name="using_buffers" id="using_buffers">Using buffers</a></h3>
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 101 gschem supports several <em>buffers</em>, which work just like the system clipboard, except they are not accessible to other applications.  You can access them through the <strong>Buffer</strong> menu.
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 105 Buffers can be useful when you have a set of objects that you wish to paste multiple times during an editing session, but not all at once.
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