Selecting text to automatically copy it, and then pasting it with the middle mouse button is clearly the superior method.
I don’t get it.
Gotta make sure that things get copied.
Mouse highlight -> middle mouse click
I use macOS and Linux and it does happen from time to time. Yelling at the computer doesn’t seem.to fix the problem so far, but I’ll report back of it does.
This is a huge problem in windows now and it never used to be.
Everything Microsoft does seems to degrade that shit OS daily.
AI is starting to bear its true fruits.
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.
Ctrl + X a function
Select some loose whitespace, backspace
Ctrl + V: Gives back the whitespace and that’s all
What the everloving fk, IDE
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I seriously sometimes don’t have the “COPY” part execute sometimes … I’ve tried to do only one copy a few times and I’m like “wait, why didn’t it copy”?
it’s not just you, it’s because Windows is fucking shit and just doesn’t do it sometimes
On the commandline:
CTRL+SHIFT+C / V
Ctrl + x -> Ctrl + v -> Ctrl + v
Meanwhile in Excel copy-paste is basically wired in with hopes and dreams
A nightmare is a kind of dream, I guess.
“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.”
For me it’s because, at least historically speaking, there’s usually no immediate feedback whatsoever if the command was successful or not. And then in addition, individual applications can also disable it entirely, often with no indication. Then on top of that, I switch back and forth between OSes, and some like Mac have different command keys and my brain doesn’t always automatically do the translation – especially since I’m using the same keyboard for all of them.
So, from a strictly reactive sensory perspective, my failure rate with just the single ctrl + c command is far from the non-zero it would take for my brain to be convinced that just the one ‘c’ is sufficient. Hitting the ‘c’ many times also gives my brain a tiny bump of endorphins / dopamine / whatever over and above hitting it just the once. It’s like playing the lotto or playing a slot machine, except all I win is paste.
FACT.
Does anyone here know why it’s unreliable?
Windows.
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?
That’s a sensible theory for when this happens at work (it’s Citrix in my case).
I’d swear it happens at home on Windows 10 as well, though. Maybe I am pressing it wrong sometimes. Either way, the meme is spot on for me.
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.
If you’ve ever looked at windows desktop application source code (shudder) they have all this wacky shit around event handling in their native C/C++ APIs, which is a lot less clean that what you typically see in other languages / platforms which do similar event handling. It wouldn’t surprise me if that shit is hacky and buggy as fuck on the OS side of that implementation too.
So this would be your ctrl-c press event, and whatever handler code.
Though it’s been like 20 years since I looked at some of this. Maybe it’s better now, but somehow I doubt it.
I have unconfirmed theories.
- My C and V key are literally the most worn keys on my keyboard. The letters are completely worn off, they’re by far my most used keys. That amount of use probably makes the contacts degrade and less reliable.
- Windows 10 (I think?) introduced a “fancy clipboard” with history and multi paste and generally made it an “app”. In my experience the fancier it is the more failure points, since it’s no longer just a simple OS memory buffer, it has its own application logic.
- Since it’s a global hotkey, the OS has to:
- Handle the interrupt
- Query the currently active window / application for a “copy” output of the currently highlighted context
- Wait for a response
- Place that response into a buffer of some sort
- In a highly volatile asynchronous UI where the user can alt tab at any time, I imagine often what happens is that you just didn’t wait long enough for the data to actually copy. Pressing CTRL+C would be equivalent in reliability as waiting 2 seconds, but it’s more fun to press the button a bunch
Probably just because you typed C + Ctrl by accident.
Nah that’s not at all how that hand movement works. It’s always rest on Ctrl and then find C for me. It would also type “C” over the highlighted text, which would be very noticeable.
Yeah, I guess it would type a C.
Maybe your keyboard lacks NKRO and your cat was sitting on 6 other keys? =P
Because copy and paste started bring over formatting.
If you do control shift V, it removes it and is much more reliable.
No that’s not what I mean (plus it doesn’t work most of the time, either). It’s the copying that often fails for me, which I only notice when I paste and realize “wait a minute, these are the previous contents of the clipboard.”
I gotta use macOS occasionally to make ipa builds and I don’t have command key and remapping ctrl doesn’t work so I gotta use mouse
Doesn’t command map to the windows key?
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Ah, a fellow golfer, I see.
Not nearly as satisfying
I disagree, executing obscure commands like that makes me feel extra smug
Hah!
What if you’re in a terminal? Ctrl-C might not be the wisest choice.
