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OK I didn't know Apple had made that a standard -- so I agree with the GP that it's dumb. If I can't easily type a shortcut with one hand, it shouldn't be a sta
by podperson 13y ago
OK I didn't know Apple had made that a standard -- so I agree with the GP that it's dumb. If I can't easily type a shortcut with one hand, it shouldn't be a standard shortcut.
I'm suggesting the standard paste should behave as expected, not adhere to some literal definition the user doesn't care about. If I copy a passage of text from one document and paste it into another, I generally want it to look like it belongs in the destination document but I don't want to lose obvious intentional styling such as italicization.
The common case should be the easy case. Instead we have the common case and the four-fingered shortcut both doing the wrong thing. Awesome.
- Someone 13y agoI think implementing "obvious intentional styling" is an AI problem. Suppose you copy a header, click in a normal paragraph, and paste. Keep styling information? Case 2: copy styled text from Keynote, and paste. Keep styling? Maybe, the logic in a word processor should be to keep character styling, but not paragraph styling, but I think there will be many edge cases (for example, the user might be using the word processor as a document layout package) I doubt those edge cases can be programmed away; user intervention is required. Microsoft solves that after the paste. That may be the better solution.
- podperson 13y agoYou can't program away edge cases, but the current standard behavior fails in the bog standard common case.