CPF (Copy/Paste Finder) is a Vim Plugin for finding copy/paste regions in code. CPF (Copy/Paste Finder) makes PMD/CPD's or Sloppy's output easier to navigate. CPF shows detected copied/pasted regions ...

Copying code from NetBeans IDE and pasting it to a text editor outside of NetBeans often do not work. Once in a while, copy and paste works but not for most of the time. How to reproduce. Under ...

Boffins affiliated with dev tools biz JetBrains and HSE University in Moscow have devised an open-source plugin for the company's Java development editor that guards against copy-and-paste coding.

Code cloning via copy-and-paste is a common practice in software engineering. Traditionally, this practice has been considered harmful, and a symptom that some important design abstraction is being ...

Educators can take inspiration from this. Providing students with starter code or exemplar solutions to copy can jump-start the learning process. In this sense, copy-paste is a form of apprenticeship: ...

A 2020 study by engineers at IDE maker JetBrains looking at Java projects on GitHub discovered that 29.6% of blocks of code might be involved in potential code-borrowing – and 9.4% of them could ...