My favourite activity is yyppppppppppp

M-w

It wasn't always like this.

I swear every version of Windows between 3.11 and XP was 100% reliable. Then it just started... slipping.

What's weird is that it often works on the second try.

Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD's clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

In my case it's mostly that browsers and as such also electron Apps unfocus textboxes when the window is unfocused for seemingly no reason, sometimes without giving visual indication meaning that I need to reselect it to copy it.

Windows.

Probably just because you typed C + Ctrl by accident.

Because copy and paste started bring over formatting.

If you do control shift V, it removes it and is much more reliable.

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've been stubbornly using that for years but eventually the convenient placement of c/v won me over.

And here is someone who has absolutely at some point in history modified the source code to GORILLAS.BAS.

And shift + del for cut, if I remember correctly.

Watch out this person has computers that still have insert keys!

"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."

A nightmare is a kind of dream, I guess.

(Microsoft bullshit survival tip: You can start a new instance of Excel by right clicking it's icon and, while holding alt the whole time, selecting something to open ("New workbook" or w/e shows up on the right click menu this week...). This separates the action history, so ctrl+z no longer jumps between workbooks.)

Scroll wheel too.

Pretty sure that's an X (and I guess now Wayland) thing, not a KDE thing. I could be wrong, but I think you could sit down at a VAX from the '80s and expect it to work.

That was part of X right? Not jusy KDE. And a lot of wayland stuff also has it.

i have this in hyprland which is wayland 👍

It's also just a Windows issue because it doesn't recognize that I pressed control c sometimes

On Mac, iterm has a highlight to copy feature that I love and miss when I have to use someone else's mac

can you tell me more about that "ctel" modifier key. I haven't seen that anywhere else

I sometimes use Ctrl+w (yank the last word) then Ctrl+y (paste it) in terminal.

Ctrl+a (move the cursor to the beginning of this line — useful to add sudo)

Ctrl+e (move the cursor to the end of this line)

Ctrl+f (move the cursor forward one character)

Ctrl+b (move the cursor back one character)

Ctrl+u (yank the whole line — better than hitting backspace a whole lot)

Ctrl+l (clear the terminal)

Ctrl+d (logout/exit)

And then ctrl-z a bunch of times because fuckfuckfuck

You mean ywp? You don't need visual mode for a single motion lol

Burn the witch!!!

I wish there was a way of making that the default behavior, I spent so much time removing random formatting that people have inserted into excel documents.

CoPilot likes to come in and tell me about all of the errors in the spreadsheet, but it's really clunky and slow so it's often easier to just fix them manually, it never fixes formatting issues the stupid thing.

When copying from a browser, Ctrl + Shift +C causes something like the debugger to open.

Gotta make sure that things get copied.

it's not just you, it's because Windows is fucking shit and just doesn't do it sometimes

Is there a reason why it sometimes doesn't work? I use arch and i'm kind of a noob when it comes to linux. I did the middle mouse tging for a bit and it seems hit and miss or i'm too stupid. Like sometimes it works, and sometimes it keeps pasting the thing i copied 10 min ago, and it doesn't matter how often i copy a new thing.

Doesn’t command map to the windows key?