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minus-squareDa Bald Eagul@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up169·2 months agoCopying doesn’t have visual feedback, which is the issue.
minus-squareessell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 months agoI’d rather cut/paste in old place/paste in new place to get that feedback!
minus-squareHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoI’m a Ctrl+X Ctrl+V, Ctrl+V kinda guy
minus-squareP4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoNO! You’re doing it terribly wrong!! It’s Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, and then Ctrl+V!!!
minus-squareSnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoCtrl+X, get distracted, Ctrl+V no output. Realisation. Suffering.
minus-squareBlack616Angel@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAlways use a copy buffer! Like the one built in to newer windows versions via win+V or the loads of them available for Linux.
minus-squareSeekPie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoGNOME has this great extension called “Clipboard History”, that you can use to save your clipboard for later use.
minus-squareSatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoYou can’t always though. Sometimes you are attempting to “cut” from an unchangeable source so you won’t get that feedback.
minus-squareCgers@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWindows itself could acknowledge it, something like a pulse around the selected text or the edges of the window, kinda like it does for screenshots
minus-squareSatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 months agoThis is so true. It’s so simple and obvious. Therefore it’s gotta be the right answer
Copying doesn’t have visual feedback, which is the issue.
I’d rather cut/paste in old place/paste in new place to get that feedback!
Good old Ctrl+X Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+V.
I’m a Ctrl+X Ctrl+V, Ctrl+V kinda guy
My people!
NO! You’re doing it terribly wrong!! It’s Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, and then Ctrl+V!!!
Ctrl+X, get distracted, Ctrl+V no output. Realisation. Suffering.
Always use a copy buffer!
Like the one built in to newer windows versions via win+V or the loads of them available for Linux.
GNOME has this great extension called “Clipboard History”, that you can use to save your clipboard for later use.
You can’t always though. Sometimes you are attempting to “cut” from an unchangeable source so you won’t get that feedback.
Windows itself could acknowledge it, something like a pulse around the selected text or the edges of the window, kinda like it does for screenshots
This is so true. It’s so simple and obvious. Therefore it’s gotta be the right answer