Copying doesn't have visual feedback, which is the issue.
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I'd rather cut/paste in old place/paste in new place to get that feedback!
Good old Ctrl+X Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+V.
NO! You're doing it terribly wrong!! It's Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, and then Ctrl+V!!!
You can't always though. Sometimes you are attempting to "cut" from an unchangeable source so you won't get that feedback.
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This is so true. It's so simple and obvious. Therefore it's gotta be the right answer
CTRL+CCCCCC, CTRL+V
For me it’s usually Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+V
Seriously, why would anyone ever want to paste with formatting?!
If you're copying from the same doc then you'd usually want to keep the formatting.
Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V. Cut gives the visual acknowledgement that copy has worked
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Ctrl + Shift + V
No more copying mystery garbage format, fonts, and colors from a different document. Why it isn’t standard to just copy raw data and a function to copy the format i will never know
It was. It used to just work. This is what they took from us, those monsters.
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I still wonder why that's the default
I never had a single time where I wanted to randomly copy and paste the formatting, often including fonts, textcolor and background colors
Such a bizarre thing
Windows 11 seems to just not work sometimes I swear. Control c that is. Control v always fucking works.
I see your problem there.
If Nvidia could figure out their shit on Wayland is be over on CachyOS for gaming but I just ran into to many crashes and such with my 4090
My complaint mostly comes from having to use windows 11 for work though. That I can't control 😭
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Trying to copy some text in a Linux terminal and instead just ending a process 🆘
In many cases, perhaps most, you can use Ctrl+shift+c/v to get around this. This muscle memory has caused problems for me because Ctrl+shift+c in Firefox brings up the development console (IIRC) and I haven't found a way to close that without using the mouse.
Depending on your environment, you may also be able to highlight text, press no keys, and middle click elsewhere to paste.
For this very reason I've disabled ctrl shift c in Firefox.
It never occurred to me to even check whether it can be disabled. I suspect you have improved my life and thank you for doing so!
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I am an esteemed gentleman. I see something i want to copy, i make sure i ctrl+c at least 9 times to make sure my clipboard is getting the message.
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Here's the kicker: I work in SolidWorks. I frequently use the measure tool and copy dimensions from an assembly to paste into a part sketch. It used to always work, but lately it hasn't been reliable, pasting an empty string into the dimension entry instead. However, if I paste the copied text into Notepad first, then copy the text from Notepad, I can then paste it back into SolidWorks just fine.
try Ctrl+Shift+V
it pastes text without formatting
I'll give that a go next time SolidWorks plays dumb. Right now it's being nice.
Thanks for the tip!
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- Highlight, select all.
- Reach for ctrl-c
- Accidentally press ctrl-v.
- I spent all morning writing that. (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
I use ctrl-s and ctrl-z for occasions just like this.
On that first step there's also ctrl-a to select all don't forget
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Why is Windows so bad at ctrl+c? Never had an issue until I was given a work laptop running Windows.
in my experience Linux is worse, but that's only because I stop processes in the terminal lol
other than that they're pretty equal for me, could you give some examples where you have difficulties?
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sometimes I use ctrl+x to make sure
I've noticed that web browsers have been good at capturing Ctrl+<char> sequences and passing them on to the right context.
For example, if I have a terminal console open in a web browser (e.g. google code, or jupyter notebook), I notice that using Ctrl+C to kill a process does correctly pass through my desktop manager, through my web-browser, and to the console to kill the process. If I click just outside of the console window but still within the web-browser, then Ctrl-C acts like a normal copy command.
Not sure what my point is, other than it perpetually boggles my mind how many layers of software a key stroke has to pass through before it acts on the actual layer that you want.
Always triple tap that motherfucker.
I knew a guy who would hit CTRL+C multiple times. Trust issues.
Always test your paste before pasting into the prod database.
Like in Excel.... are you pasting values, numbers, formats, formulas, comments, the source theme...
Yes!
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I feel this currently way to hard. Since some days ago on wayland and kde, copy paste between different groups of programms stopped working. Looks like there are hiccups between native installed and flatpaks.
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I can see paste work, and the times it doesn't are from copy shitting the bed.
Windows 11 actually killed my trust in Ctrl+V.
Try control shift v. It'll paste without the sources formatting. I'm thinking that is what is causing us all ire.
Ctrl+v < shift+ins
It's not just me! I thought it was some weird quirk of my install or something.
One of those is invisible though
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