Yeah, I thought some people might do that. As it is now, newbies get really annoyed and frustrated, as well as some experienced users. I figure it is easy enough for someone in your position to hit shift- left-arrow, then shift-up-arrow and it'll be back to the original position. That's much easier than recovering from pasting a copy right on top of itself.
Maybe someone can come up with an even better idea that solves both issues. .hc On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > I agree with pasting to the same window the cursor position would be > the > best solution. But please leave it the way it is for different > windows. > I always copy objects that have been changed to almost identical > windows and > they are right in the spot where they belong. Changing this > behaviour would > be very annoying if you're doing things like this. > > Ingo > > >> well, the current behavior is helpful when pasting into a different >> window >> if it has similar dimensions, but if we are copying a piece of a >> patch >> which >> was way down in a window into a new window, then the pasted code >> ends up >> in >> the same place too and one has to go look for it. This also happens >> because >> the window doesn't focus in the pasted section, but keeps the 0,0 >> coordinates. >> I think in general, (or when pasting to the same window) it would >> be nice >> to >> paste into the last clicked coordinate. >> >> In any case I am so used to it by now that I can survive in these >> conditions. >> >> J >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Miller Puckette >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think if pasting to the same window this would be reasonable - but >> I've >>> always had in mind, instead, to paste the objects to a new place >> determined >>> by current cursor position, which would be far better. Just haven't >> been >>> able to think it through and do it. >>> >>> M >>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same >>>> response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 >>>> pixels >>>> in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste >>>> doesn't >>>> do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the >>>> current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command, >>>> but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy- >>>> paste >>>> and you need a special function. >>>> >>>> .hc > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
