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Zzyzx @lemmy.blahaj.zone

2d ago

Trust Rule

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I knew a guy who would hit CTRL+C multiple times. Trust issues.

The third column is my trust level in ctrl+c on microsoft excel
- Excel is also the only software where you can only paste something once and them having to select and copy it again
- Oh god the amount of times it straight up doesn't work when I KNOW I hit the right keys
  SCREAMS INTO BROKEN FORMULAS

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.
- I installed a kde machine the other day and forgot about the default weirdass clipboard behavior. Thought my keyboard was broken for a minute.
  
  What's weird with the KDE clipboard?

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.
  
  Yeah I know about Ctrl+Shift+C I was joking, I think we've can all relate to accidentally sending a interrupt signal every now and then!
  Now tell me how to copy text from nano and paste it elsewhere! 😆
  
  Shouldn't F12 still close it, even if you opened it with another command?
  
  The middle click is pretty nice on a ThinkPad, since that's probably the only place where it's an actual separate key.
  
  macOS does this right with copy and paste using the command key.
- For real how is there not a new standard for this yet

Why is Windows so bad at ctrl+c? Never had an issue until I was given a work laptop running Windows.
- It's not?
- 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?

Highlight, select all.
Reach for ctrl-c
Accidentally press ctrl-v.
I spent all morning writing that. (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
- That's why ctrl-z exists
- 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
- Instead I often either press CTRL+C instead of CTRL+V, or mispress in a way I quickly press C just before V, usually on an empty line, so it vipes my local clipboard, then I have to rely on Win+V because Kate still doesn't have a clipboard history.

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.
- I think that might be the kde keyboard manager doing something.
  
  I had to change some permissions in flatseal, it then started working again. But lookin into the keyboard manager ia also a good idea.

Copying doesn't have visual feedback, which is the issue.
- I'd rather cut/paste in old place/paste in new place to get that feedback!
  
  Good old Ctrl+X Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+V.
  
  You can't always though. Sometimes you are attempting to "cut" from an unchangeable source so you won't get that feedback.
- This is so true. It's so simple and obvious. Therefore it's gotta be the right answer

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
- 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
  
  Vestige from MS office dominance would be my guess
- It was. It used to just work. This is what they took from us, those monsters.
  
  Yeah CTRL shift v is not so reliable, on fedora you can copy and paste with Ctrl shift v from and in terminal and get garbage characters to clean

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.
  
  Control shift C used to copy formatting and control shift v would paste the formatting. So if you pasted in a word doc or excel you could copy the font style and size from the cell or paragraph next to it and paste it over the weird.
  Then control shift C in Teams decided it would call everyone in the group chat at fucking once.
  
  Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V. Cut gives the visual acknowledgement that copy has worked

Windows 11 seems to just not work sometimes I swear. Control c that is. Control v always fucking works.
- Win10 too. Fucking annoying
- 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 😭

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!
  
  I wonder if this is the change causing us all trouble. Did old control v do this?
  
  Amen to this. I have to use a Win machine for work and it’s absolutely bloody maddening. Ctrl-Shift-V always.

Always triple tap that motherfucker.

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.

sometimes I use ctrl+x to make sure

Ctrl+v < shift+ins

Always test your paste before pasting into the prod database.

win+v is superior to ctrl+v.
- Only for those who don't hide their shame by disabling clipboard history. I have my reasons...

Like in Excel.... are you pasting values, numbers, formats, formulas, comments, the source theme...
- Yes!
- Paste values
  Ctrl shift v
  Game changer

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.

I can see paste work, and the times it doesn't are from copy shitting the bed.

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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