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What happened to Ctrl-X/Cut? #210

Closed caoliver closed 4 years ago

caoliver commented 4 years ago

I just built from commit eebff777, and Ctrl-X seems to do nothing now. A git bisection tracks this to commit a313dff9. What's up with that?

jun7 commented 4 years ago

It is for cut and paste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Cut_and_paste

caoliver commented 4 years ago

But cut fails to do anything at all. At least before it deleted the file. Now it does absolutely nothing.

jun7 commented 4 years ago

Couldn't you paste it?

caoliver commented 4 years ago

I see what you're saying, but that's very very counterintuitive. The notion of cut/paste is that something goes away, and then you paste it somewhere else. There is no visual evidence that anything has happened at all. What happens when you execute ctrl/x in a CUA based editor? The selected artifact vanishes, and then appears where you paste it. Is there some way to simulate this? My main objection is that there is a lot more hand shifting (bad ergonomics) to delete a file. Before, I could use my right to select a file, and type ctrl/x with my left which wasn't that far from home row. Now I must either leave the mouse or move my left hand to type the delete key.

caoliver commented 4 years ago

I think I can get some useful (at least to me) behavior by adding some shortcuts to menu2. I'm closing this, though I do believe there should be some visual indication of the cut action.