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One feature which has been found in a lot of newer text editors (such as Eclipse, PowerEdit, and EditPlus) is the ability to store and catalog text clippings for later pasting into programs.

Common idioms can thus be reused from program to program.

For example:

list of USA's 50 states, comma delimited
list of US state capitols
code needed to read a file in Java
etc.

Commentary

To some degree, this is encouraging what is otherwise a bad practice. Copy-paste bugs are so common that they have their own name and yet, this is a powerful strategy for people who need a fast starting point.