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minus-squareDa Bald Eagul@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up165·1 year agoCopying doesn’t have visual feedback, which is the issue.
minus-squareessell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 year agoI’d rather cut/paste in old place/paste in new place to get that feedback!
minus-squareHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 year agoI’m a Ctrl+X Ctrl+V, Ctrl+V kinda guy
minus-squareP4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoNO! You’re doing it terribly wrong!! It’s Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, and then Ctrl+V!!!
minus-squareSnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoCtrl+X, get distracted, Ctrl+V no output. Realisation. Suffering.
minus-squareSeekPie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoGNOME has this great extension called “Clipboard History”, that you can use to save your clipboard for later use.
minus-squareBlack616Angel@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-squareSatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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-up27·1 year 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.
GNOME has this great extension called “Clipboard History”, that you can use to save your clipboard for later use.
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.
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