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FYI you can do cut in Mac. Do Cmd-C to copy and the Cmd-Option-V to cut-paste. For whatever reason, Windows has cut attached to selecting the file, but Mac has
by rjayatilleka 5y ago
FYI you can do cut in Mac. Do Cmd-C to copy and the Cmd-Option-V to cut-paste. For whatever reason, Windows has cut attached to selecting the file, but Mac has it attached to pasting the file.
- kevincox 5y agoTo me attaching it to source file actually makes sense. In either scenario paste results in the same thing at the destination, it is only the behaviour of the source that changes. (Sure, under the hood nothing different happens at the beginning, but semantically I think Windows makes sense here)
- tsimionescu 5y ago> For whatever reason, Windows has cut attached to selecting the file That is the universal way copy/cut&paste work, everywhere outside the Mac Finder.
- dsego 5y agoEverywhere being windows and linux file managers that copied windows?
- frosted-flakes 5y agoEven on Mac OS cut works like Windows, except in Finder.
- dsego 5y agoOn text where it makes sense.
- hdctambien 5y agoAnd "real life" cutting and pasting that the metaphor was based on (scrapbooking, ransom notes, etc...)
- icedistilled 5y agowow I did not realize mac had that. As an original mac user cutting a file always seemed like a terrible idea when I saw the option on windows. What if you cut it but then then get interrupted before pasting? File gone! The mac way seems safer.