duplicate with inputs..

Are you talking about coping a subtree? If so just right click on the beginning component of the tree that you want to copy and select "Select Subtree" from the pop-up sub menu...then right click again and do a copy paste..Then you will have that branch of the tree.....

you can copy multiple components all hooked up to each other by highlighting all those components at once. then, right click and hit 'copy'. after that, you can right click and 'paste' that entire routine/group. it will NOT be connected to anything else yet, but it will keep any lines hooked up to each of the other components within that group. and, like CF said, you can also use the 'select subtree'.

one other thing that folks may not know about this is, you can do the selecting of groups of components and copy them into the clipboard and then exit out of that filter and open another and paste that same group in the new filter. as long as you dont do anything else to change what's in the clibboard, you can do this endlessly filter to filter. it's a good way to bring whole snippets into your filters.

you can also hit control-a to select all components within a filter.

+1

Also, while we're on the subject, I would love to be able to copy and paste connections. So if I have an output going to 10 different places, I can right click the output triangle, copy connections and paste it onto another output. Same for inputs.

I think question is different.
He wants same controlling element for two feeds even after exiting the editor.
If I am guessing right than its simple, one output can be fed in multiple elements as input!!!

Please do explain ur question more