-void setSelectionRange(LCursor & cur, lyx::pos_type length);
-/// simply replace using the font of the first selected character
-void replaceSelectionWithString(LCursor & cur, std::string const & str);
-/// replace selection helper
-void replaceSelection(LCursor & cur);
-
-///
-void cutSelection(LCursor & cur, bool doclear = true, bool realcut = true);
-///
-void copySelection(LCursor & cur);
-///
-void pasteSelection(LCursor & cur, size_t sel_index = 0);
+void cutSelection(Cursor & cur, bool doclear = true, bool realcut = true);
+/// Push the current selection to the cut buffer and the system clipboard.
+void copySelection(Cursor & cur);
+/**
+ * Push the current selection to the cut buffer and the system clipboard.
+ * \param plaintext plain text version of the selection for the system
+ * clipboard
+ */
+void copySelection(Cursor & cur, docstring const & plaintext);
+/// Push the selection buffer to the cut buffer.
+void copySelectionToStack();
+/// Store the current selection in the internal selection buffer
+void saveSelection(Cursor & cur);
+/// Is a selection available in our selection buffer?
+bool selection();
+/// Clear our selection buffer
+void clearSelection();
+/// Clear our cut stack.
+void clearCutStack();
+/// Paste the current selection at \p cur
+/// Does handle undo. Does only work in text, not mathed.
+void pasteSelection(Cursor & cur, ErrorList &);
+/// Replace the current selection with the clipboard contents as text
+/// (internal or external: which is newer).
+/// Does handle undo. Does only work in text, not mathed.
+void pasteClipboardText(Cursor & cur, ErrorList & errorList,
+ bool asParagraphs = true);
+/// Replace the current selection with the clipboard contents as graphic.
+/// Does handle undo. Does only work in text, not mathed.
+void pasteClipboardGraphics(Cursor & cur, ErrorList & errorList,
+ Clipboard::GraphicsType preferedType = Clipboard::AnyGraphicsType);
+/// Replace the current selection with cut buffer \c sel_index
+/// Does handle undo. Does only work in text, not mathed.
+void pasteFromStack(Cursor & cur, ErrorList & errorList, size_t sel_index);
+
+/// Paste the paragraph list \p parlist at the position given by \p cur.
+/// Does not handle undo. Does only work in text, not mathed.
+void pasteParagraphList(Cursor & cur, ParagraphList const & parlist,
+ DocumentClass const * const textclass, ErrorList & errorList);
+