I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious whether anyone uses it. Because almost every text editor supports it yet when I use it, it’s just by accident and it messes up my document
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No but why did you take the spaces with it? Leave the spaces so when it moves you don’t have to add it back
A lot of times its too much trouble to fiddle with the highlighting to catch the right spaces, and then drop it in the right spot. Its easier to just grab it, drop it, then edit the spaces.
I very often mark the word or text and drag and drop it to the top of the browser, so it starts instantl a search about this.
Way faster than using many extra steps
I use it at work sometimes because our help desk randomly started crashing when I pasted into it from OneNote, but dragging the text from OD into the text box works for some reason.
I have ulnar nerve damage so when i hit ctrl+c/x/v i often don’t quite depress C/X or V fully without thinking about it. So i use drag text quite often.
I’ve only very rarely had drag text misfire unintentionally.
I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists
I use it when writing emails fairly often. I get all my thoughts out and realize the order isn’t how I’d like. At that point if I’m holding the mouse, why not.
On the phone? Because otherwise, why not cut and paste?
Because you’d have to move your mouse to the new position anyways to paste, so might as well save 1 button press by just click dragging instead
Hmm…if it’s close, I’d just use my keyboard. If it’s far, I’d probably want the precision of the cursor anyway.
I did actually, but I really appreciate the visual style of teaching computer tips and tricks, you should post more of them!
Nope, when writing on a PC I avoid touching NY mouse anyway.
Sometimes I’m too lazy to reach the keyboard
I use it on desktop when I’m trying to rephrase something I’ve written to make my meaning more clear or improve the flow.
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I use highlight/middle click paste a lot which I suppose is similar.
Once in a blue moon? Not habitually though
TIL
I thought this was a shit post at first because same
Maaaaybe if I’m moving whole paragraphs around? But even then I’d probably cut and paste
