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
Geez, no. No, no, a thousand times no.
I do actually occasionally use it, sometimes it’s easier than Ctrl-X Ctrl-V
TIL
I thought this was a shit post at first because same
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.
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.
nah
Ctrl x Ctrl v
I use highlight/middle click paste a lot which I suppose is similar.
Once in a blue moon? Not habitually though
Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying ‘repeat your email’ fields that won’t let you paste.
What were you trying to achieve?
You selected the spaces on either side and dragged - it did what you asked it to?If it automatically selected the spaces on either side, I hate that - totally justifiable anger.
Sometimes I’m too lazy to reach the keyboard
diwkp
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.
Frequently when I’m making lists and I am reorganizing the order.
Or I’m wiritng a recipe and get the directions in the wrong order.
Sometimes I’m writing an article and I move sentences around to improve the flow of the article.
No. But who talks about this kind of thing?
