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The Input Area (left side with brighter color)

In the Input Area the text gets assembled, edited and formatted.

[=> paste]
adds text from Windows Clipboard to the input area. If the input area is empty, this text gets loaded initially otherwise it gets appended at the end of the existing text. After starting ClipCollect or after saving text with a button on the right side, the input area is empty and colored red. On pasting text then, its color changes to green. Green means there is something to format and to save.

[delete]
deletes the whole text. On a right click a menu will pop up with some more options what exactly to delete. You have the choice to delete the last pasted text snippet, all earlier added snippets or the whole text. To get all these three options offered, you must have pasted at least two snippets, of course.

[edit]
starts an editor, which shows you either the whole text or the last pasted text snippet, depending on the status of the [all] switch. Saving in this editor changes the contents of the input area and has nothing to do with the save operations of the output area on the right side.

The upper 7 radio buttons are for formatting the last pasted text snippet. They are affecting only this last snippet (at the bottom of the text) which is thus called the formatting zone! A green color of the input area will inform you that there is something in the formatting zone.

Three colors are indicating the input state:

The formatting options are:

[As is]
shows the contents of the formatting zone unformatted. When using the editor it can undo its unsaved changes.

[Clean]
replaces non-printing characters like tabs (ascii 0-31) with spaces or line breaks.

[Deflate]
removes all blank lines.

[Wrap]
wraps long lines to paragraphs and makes lists out of lines that start with a list marker. Generally it preserves indentation. The line size is set by default to 71 characters and can be changed by selecting twice this formatting option, which will pop up an entry box then. This double clicking works for the remaining 3 options, too.

[Tidy 71] -default-
works similar to the above, but tries more to make paragraphs by connecting lines together or aligning them, meaning indentation is much less preserved. This is somewhat contradictory to making lists, so don't expect that it always works the way you wish. In general formatting text automatically is a difficult task. Depending on the text you might want to help the formatter by editing the text previously. This means putting in blank lines at paragraph boundaries, joining lines the formatter doesn't connect and changing indentations.

But, if you don't want to think, take this formatting option, it mostly will give the best results.

[Pack]
compresses the text to paragraphs divided by blank lines. All words are separated by only one single space, so indentation or tabulation is not preserved.

[Press]
same as the above, but compresses the whole text to one single paragraph

Status display:

[Visit the Visoracle] or [? snips + ? bytes]
shows the number of pasted snippets and their total size in bytes. On click it will pop up a menu with additional actions (always the same regardless of the button's text).

Try it right now! Click [edit] and then on [delete] and confirm, select with the mouse and then copy with ctrl-c the text above, click [=> paste] and finally watch what happens clicking the radio buttons. Here are more details and examples of how to format.

While editing please take care of the [all] switch:

On the other hand you don't have to open the editor at all. Loading the input area and emptying it by saving in the output area will work fine without editing or checking.

There is a little trick if you want to format the whole text, but only part or nothing of it is in the formatting zone. Just click on the right side [Cut] and then [=> paste] which first empties and then loads the input area again. Now your whole text appears as one single snippet in the formatting zone, because it is the last pasted one.