Move, copy, delete

xfig has no selection: you choose a mode first (Move, Copy, Delete, …) and then click the object it acts on. RustFig works the same way. To act on an object hidden under another one, Shift+left locates it first (Mouse). The cut buffer is filled by Copy mode's right button (“copy to cut buf”) or Delete mode's right button (“del to cut buf”), and emptied with Edit > Paste objects.

Move

Key M. Moves one object, or a compound as a whole.

• Left, “move object”: press on an object, drag, release; or click it and click again at the new place.
• Middle, “horiz/vert move”: the same, but the move is restricted to horizontal or vertical, whichever is greater.
• Right, “move region”: mark a region with two clicks or a drag; every object completely inside moves, placed with the next click.

With Smart links on, lines attached to a moved shape follow. Grid and object snaps apply.

Copy

No key (xfig key Ctrl+C). As Move, but leaves the original.

• Left, “copy object”: press, drag, release (or click, click).
• Middle, “horiz/vert copy”.
• Right, “copy to cut buf”: puts the object in the cut buffer and on the system clipboard (as a figure other RustFig windows can paste, and as a picture for other programs); Edit > Paste objects attaches it to the pointer later (Edit menu).
• While the copy is being placed the buttons read “place object” (left, one copy) and “array placement” (middle): with Num X Copies and Num Y Copies set (indicator fields num_x_copies and num_y_copies, 0 to 99), the middle button places a grid of copies spaced by the distance you moved, along x and y. With only one of them set to 1 you get a single extra copy that way; with both at 1, one along x and one along y; with larger numbers a columns-by-rows grid without the original's cell (command edit.copy_array).

Delete

Key D.

• Left, “delete object”: click an object.
• Middle, “delete region”: mark a region; everything completely inside is deleted.
• Right, “del to cut buf”: deletes the object and keeps it on the clipboard (a cut).

Undo brings objects back.