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Cut/Copy/Paste and Fill

Often you will want to copy, move, delete or fill large areas of your map. To accomplish this, you can use the appropriate commands from the Edit-menu.

Clear:
By activating the Clear-command, everything in the currently selected area of the map will be deleted. Unlike for the Cut-command, the copy buffer remains unchanged.

Cut:
By activating the Cut-command, everything in the currently selected area of the map will be deleted and stored into the copy buffer.

Copy:
By activating the Copy-command, everything in the currently selected area is stored into the copy buffer. The map itself remains unchanged.
(Note that multi-part objects will usually be copied only when their "head"-tile is located within the selected area. Since the position of this "head"-tile differs, expect some strange behavior there.)

Paste:
The paste command allows to dump the contents of the copy buffer onto the map. First, select a square on the map to be the top-left corner of the pasted area. Anything which doesn't fit within the borders of the map will not get pasted. Multi-part objects which would reach outside of the map borders, and be it only with their small toe, don't get pasted either.

Fill:
There are two fill commands: "Fill Below" and "Fill Above". The difference between those two should be pretty obvious: If any selected map squares are not empty, the new arches will get inserted either above top (-> Fill Above), or below bottom (-> Fill below).

Both fill commands can be used in two different ways:

  1. Select *one* empty square and hit fill: All empty squares adjacent to the selected one will get flood filled.
  2. Select an area or a non-empty square: The currently selected default arch will be inserted on top of (or below) every square within the selected area.