(long standing) complaint about copy/paste editor functioning

[Maguin, Eugene]

For me but I assume for everybody, when working in the syntax editor and cutting (Ctrl-X) text and then after moving the cursor to the insertion point and mis-typing Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-V to paste the ‘buffer’ is cleared. Understandable, yes, but (really) maddening. (Of course, Ctrl-Z once or twice can recover the cut text). However, I notice that Word appears to function differently and the same clumsy finger work does not result in lost text. So, a suggestion that the editor functioning be altered so that it functions like I believe Word does.

 

To cut out the little circus from yesterday about pinning columns, it may well be the mouse cut-mouse paste functions differently. I don’t know and I don’t care.

 

Gene Maguin

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[Jon Peck]

So, the rule would be that pressing ctrl-c when there is no selection at the cursor would not clear the clipboard.  That's friendlier behavior, I agree.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:45 AM Maguin, Eugene <[hidden email]> wrote:

For me but I assume for everybody, when working in the syntax editor and cutting (Ctrl-X) text and then after moving the cursor to the insertion point and mis-typing Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-V to paste the ‘buffer’ is cleared. Understandable, yes, but (really) maddening. (Of course, Ctrl-Z once or twice can recover the cut text). However, I notice that Word appears to function differently and the same clumsy finger work does not result in lost text. So, a suggestion that the editor functioning be altered so that it functions like I believe Word does.

 

To cut out the little circus from yesterday about pinning columns, it may well be the mouse cut-mouse paste functions differently. I don’t know and I don’t care.

 

Gene Maguin

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