Comments on: Is there anyone who would not prefer the default behavior of “Paste” to be “Paste and Match Style”? http://www.thisux.com/2009/09/03/is-there-anyone-who-would-not-prefer-the-default-behavior-of-paste-to-be-paste-and-match-style/ by Matt Henderson, since 2003 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Hendersonhttp://www.thisux.com/2009/09/03/is-there-anyone-who-would-not-prefer-the-default-behavior-of-paste-to-be-paste-and-match-style/comment-page-1/#comment-78706 Matt Henderson Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:09:01 +0000 http://matt.makalumedia.com/2009/09/03/is-there-anyone-who-would-not-prefer-the-default-behavior-of-paste-to-be-paste-and-match-style/#comment-78706 <p>In which context(s) has it needed to work this way for so long? Is this primarily related to typical desktop publishing origins of the Mac? Just curious, as I <em>never</em> (not once, that I can recall) prefer to paste styles.</p><p>Agreed, the prompting might be a bad idea.</p> In which context(s) has it needed to work this way for so long? Is this primarily related to typical desktop publishing origins of the Mac? Just curious, as I never (not once, that I can recall) prefer to paste styles.

Agreed, the prompting might be a bad idea.

]]> By: Ölbaumhttp://www.thisux.com/2009/09/03/is-there-anyone-who-would-not-prefer-the-default-behavior-of-paste-to-be-paste-and-match-style/comment-page-1/#comment-78705 Ölbaum Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:32 +0000 http://matt.makalumedia.com/2009/09/03/is-there-anyone-who-would-not-prefer-the-default-behavior-of-paste-to-be-paste-and-match-style/#comment-78705 <p>Pasting has worked this way for a quarter century. If you suddenly change that behaviour, you are going to upset a LOT of people.</p><p>It's much more reasonable to allow the Command-V keyboard shortcut to be assigned to "Paste and Match Style" <em>if you want</em>, of course without making it the default behaviour. It would basically have the same effect but without breaking the workflow of people who are so used to the normal behaviour that they don't think about it, except when they want the other behaviour, in which case we simply use the other shortcut.</p><p>Prompting the user on paste is a very, very, very bad idea. It would be annoying as Hell.</p> Pasting has worked this way for a quarter century. If you suddenly change that behaviour, you are going to upset a LOT of people.

It’s much more reasonable to allow the Command-V keyboard shortcut to be assigned to “Paste and Match Style” if you want, of course without making it the default behaviour. It would basically have the same effect but without breaking the workflow of people who are so used to the normal behaviour that they don’t think about it, except when they want the other behaviour, in which case we simply use the other shortcut.

Prompting the user on paste is a very, very, very bad idea. It would be annoying as Hell.

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