Don’t you mean ctrl + shift + c if in terminal and ctel+c elsewhere
It’s a UX issue. Ctrl+c has no feedback to the user.
It’s also just a Windows issue because it doesn’t recognize that I pressed control c sometimes
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Selecting text to automatically copy it, and then pasting it with the middle mouse button is clearly the superior method.
They aren’t prepared for the ancient texts
Mouse highlight -> middle mouse click
No. This is the dumbest UX decision anyone has ever made, and I will die on this hill. The keyboard is for text, and the mouse is used for navigation. Anything else, is a bastardization dreamt up by mad men.
What do you think the middle click should do?
But my computer has two different clipboards :)
vim has 48 “clipboards”, but how many people use more than one? how many people get frustrated when they accidentally use the non-default one?
I mean I use at least two; one for vim and a second one mapped to my system clipboard. But I’ll often yank to other buffers when I’m deep in a project, sometimes you don’t want to lose something you’re gonna be pasting throughout a document.
I don’t get it.
Gotta make sure that things get copied.
Gotta make sure that things get copied.
Gotta make sure that things get copied.
This is a huge problem in windows now and it never used to be.
Everything Microsoft does seems to degrade that shit OS daily.
it pisses me off so much. literally every month some new feature/bug is added to critical software that we use and which results in clearly quantifiable wasted time, money, and stress
the ctrl+c issue alone has cost the company a few thousand dollars in the past year from the few cases I can think of off the top of my head. there’s a bit of software that we use where we need to enter the information that exists in one field into another field. obviously copy paste is the way to do this, it’s simple and it should work, right? except the program is built on Access and has its own problems on top of Windows fucking everything up. so what happens is people paste the previous copy into the new field instead of the newly-attemped copy. and that results in people spending hundreds of dollars to order the wrong part. bc the fucking software is garbage to interact with.
AI is starting to bear its true fruits.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I seriously sometimes don’t have the “COPY” part execute sometimes … I’ve tried to do only one copy a few times and I’m like “wait, why didn’t it copy”?
it’s not just you, it’s because Windows is fucking shit and just doesn’t do it sometimes
I use macOS and Linux and it does happen from time to time. Yelling at the computer doesn’t seem.to fix the problem so far, but I’ll report back of it does.
Ctrl + X a function
Select some loose whitespace, backspace
Ctrl + V: Gives back the whitespace and that’s all
What the everloving fk, IDE
On the commandline:
CTRL+SHIFT+C / V
Meanwhile in Excel copy-paste is basically wired in with hopes and dreams
Scroll wheel too.
A nightmare is a kind of dream, I guess.
“These two columns… I see what you’re doing here, I’ll just continue that formula down ok?”
Great! How about this table? Can we copy this bit here and move it to-
“Your honor I have never seen this man in my life, I don’t speak English, and I think he’s threatening me.”
Ctrl + x -> Ctrl + v -> Ctrl + v
For me it’s because, at least historically speaking, there’s usually no immediate feedback whatsoever if the command was successful or not. And then in addition, individual applications can also disable it entirely, often with no indication. Then on top of that, I switch back and forth between OSes, and some like Mac have different command keys and my brain doesn’t always automatically do the translation – especially since I’m using the same keyboard for all of them.
So, from a strictly reactive sensory perspective, my failure rate with just the single ctrl + c command is far from the non-zero it would take for my brain to be convinced that just the one ‘c’ is sufficient. Hitting the ‘c’ many times also gives my brain a tiny bump of endorphins / dopamine / whatever over and above hitting it just the once. It’s like playing the lotto or playing a slot machine, except all I win is paste.
