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
I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists
No. But who talks about this kind of thing?
Sometimes I’m too lazy to reach the keyboard
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.
I use it occasionally when reorganizing code. It’s easier to just drag and drop blocks of code than to ctrl-x ctrl-v. I don’t do it for anything in the middle of a line though, because it seems too easy to make a mistake.
Not the way you did in the example, but when I want to copy text from a website that has ctrl-c blocked, I drag and drop onto a text editor.
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 have ulnar nerve damage so when i hit ctrl+c/x/v i often don’t quite depress C/X or V fully without thinking about it. So i use drag text quite often.
I’ve only very rarely had drag text misfire unintentionally.
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.
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.
I use highlight/middle click paste a lot which I suppose is similar.
I use it a lot.
I did actually, but I really appreciate the visual style of teaching computer tips and tricks, you should post more of them!
I have used it once
