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

  • JackGreenEarth
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    384 months ago

    I do actually occasionally use it, sometimes it’s easier than Ctrl-X Ctrl-V

  • kratoz29
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    64 months ago

    Is this using a PC? Maybe I would.

    If this is from a smartphone… I wouldn’t I guess… I often prefer to retype than dealing with the select text feature… It seems I get the same experience in the most recent mobile OS that I had when I used my iPod Touch 4G a lot of years ago, why does it feel that this feature hasn’t even evolved? I can’t be the only one that feels it is terrible to use, I prefer to use the keyboard gestures than dealing with it.

  • @dave@feddit.uk
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    34 months ago

    Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying ‘repeat your email’ fields that won’t let you paste.

    • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      14 months ago

      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.