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
Maaaaybe if I’m moving whole paragraphs around? But even then I’d probably cut and paste
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.
I have used it once
Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying ‘repeat your email’ fields that won’t let you paste.
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.
I do actually occasionally use it, sometimes it’s easier than Ctrl-X Ctrl-V
I use highlight/middle click paste a lot which I suppose is similar.
No. But who talks about this kind of thing?
Only within a web browser, generally to drag something from a page to the search bar
I use it a lot.
No but why did you take the spaces with it? Leave the spaces so when it moves you don’t have to add it back
A lot of times its too much trouble to fiddle with the highlighting to catch the right spaces, and then drop it in the right spot. Its easier to just grab it, drop it, then edit the spaces.
Interesting. I’ll try it out!
I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists
