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> I cut, undo, ..., undo, and paste multiple times a day. Why would you cut + undo as opposed to just copy? Are they not the same operation at that point?
by Mogzol 2mo ago
> I cut, undo, ..., undo, and paste multiple times a day.
Why would you cut + undo as opposed to just copy? Are they not the same operation at that point?
- sharkjacobs 2mo agoI often cut + undo because seeing the cut is feedback which tells me the operation successfully put the content into clipboard. This is not always a guarantee especially in web apps, and sometimes I just have focus on the wrong window.
- jubilanti 2mo agoHave you used a clipboard manager? There are tons that you can configure with notifications and indicators, so you don't have to that.
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- nkrisc 2mo agoHaving to install yet more software seems worse than the problem you’re suggesting it should solve.
- michaelmrose 2mo agoEven windows has this software out of the box because it is so obviously useful
- ashdksnndck 2mo agoAt least it would save you a keystroke every time, if it enables you to switch from cut+undo to copy.
- mjmsmith 2mo agoHow can you be sure that the undo stack is in sync with the clipboard? Wouldn't cut+paste be a more reliable pseudo-copy than cut+undo?
- TeMPOraL 2mo ago> How can you be sure that the undo stack is in sync with the clipboard? Simple: they're not meant to be. Undo stack and clipboard are orthogonal. It's like foundational rule of computing.
- vjulian 2mo agoI feel as though I’m reading the script to a Monty Python sketch.
- croes 2mo agoHave you never copied, tried to paste and you pasted the wrong thing because copy failed? Cut + undo, is copy with visual feedback
- efreak 2mo agoCopy and paste gives you visual feedback without reflowing the document. I also use it to intentionally add a marker in undo history in documents in not planning to change, as that way I can use the undo history to jump to different areas.
- croes 2mo agoWhere does Copy give you feedback that you actually copied something?
- eth0up 2mo agoIn Linux, if under XFCE, strangely by default, Clipman keeps a log of all text ever copied, in a giant textsrc file ( .cache/xfce4/clipman/textsrc ) That is kind of the opposite though, and more of a passive, almost furtive, indelible clipboard feedback. I was pretty astonished to find it, hovering somewhere near 4MB with years of content.
- efreak 2mo agoThe paste action gives you feedback by having the cursor move to the end of the selected text after it replaces the text you copied with itself. If you're on Android, lately it actually does give feedback by putting the copied text into the predictive text/autocomplete bar above the keyboard (I find this annoying as I'm usually copying text to save for later use, and I use the appearance of text I want in the corrections as an indication I've swiped wrong. If only I could touch-type while lying down...). In other apps that don't display the keyboard, it sometimes gives you a toast that an app has access the clipboard, though it gives the same toast for pasting or just for accessing it (eg pasting with termux or using an RDP app that syncs the clipboard)
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