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Pasting with formatting is one of the rare UX things that Apple gets so damn wrong. Unbelievable how frustrating it is, almost on par with autocorrect correcti

by zpeti 3y ago

Pasting with formatting is one of the rare UX things that Apple gets so damn wrong. Unbelievable how frustrating it is, almost on par with autocorrect correcting the same word twice after I typed it out twice. I mean for ducks - I mean ducks, no ducks sake…

duxup 3y ago
Pasting with formatting seems to be the default in Windows / windows apps too last I used it.
- velcrovan 3y ago
  Yeah this is not a Mac-only thing.
- brookst 3y ago
  Yes, I keep Notepad open just to bounce copy/paste off of to strip formatting.
- 1000100_1000101 3y ago
  Yup, and whether paste without formatting is ctrl-shift-v, ctrl-alt-v, or not available varies app by app. It's infuriating.
- Isthatablackgsd 3y ago
  That's why I uses Ditto Clipboard Manager in Windows. I have it set to use paste without formatting (paste in plain text) as default. I recalled Windows can do it by using Ctrl+Shift+V which paste without formatting. Just a extra key to make it happen.
brookst 3y ago
Also the nondeterministic and possibly causality-violating behavior of capitalization during typing, autocorrect, and backspacing. Once autocorrect decides a word is capitalized, the keyboard will always do exactly the wrong thing when you try to fix it. You’ll backspace to the first letter, and the shift key will highlight so you capitalize some non-capital word. Or, having been burned by this, you’ll tap shift to turn that off, but it guessed you would do that, so you’re still capitalizing. And if autocorrect changed a name to a common word, good luck capitalizing the name. There is a PhD, and possibly a new branch of physics, to be had here.
narag 3y ago
Tell me that it's possible to disable autocorrect, isn't it?
- elashri 3y ago
  Yes you can. [1] [1] https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchlp2299/mac https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchlp2299/mac

by zpeti 3y ago

duxup 3y ago

Pasting with formatting seems to be the default in Windows / windows apps too last I used it.

velcrovan 3y ago
Yeah this is not a Mac-only thing.
brookst 3y ago
Yes, I keep Notepad open just to bounce copy/paste off of to strip formatting.
1000100_1000101 3y ago
Yup, and whether paste without formatting is ctrl-shift-v, ctrl-alt-v, or not available varies app by app. It's infuriating.
Isthatablackgsd 3y ago
That's why I uses Ditto Clipboard Manager in Windows. I have it set to use paste without formatting (paste in plain text) as default. I recalled Windows can do it by using Ctrl+Shift+V which paste without formatting. Just a extra key to make it happen.

brookst 3y ago

Also the nondeterministic and possibly causality-violating behavior of capitalization during typing, autocorrect, and backspacing. Once autocorrect decides a word is capitalized, the keyboard will always do exactly the wrong thing when you try to fix it. You’ll backspace to the first letter, and the shift key will highlight so you capitalize some non-capital word. Or, having been burned by this, you’ll tap shift to turn that off, but it guessed you would do that, so you’re still capitalizing. And if autocorrect changed a name to a common word, good luck capitalizing the name. There is a PhD, and possibly a new branch of physics, to be had here.

narag 3y ago

Tell me that it's possible to disable autocorrect, isn't it?

elashri 3y ago
Yes you can. [1] [1] https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchlp2299/mac https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchlp2299/mac