I do actually occasionally use it, sometimes it's easier than Ctrl-X Ctrl-V

TIL

Geez, no. No, no, a thousand times no.

I use it when writing emails fairly often. I get all my thoughts out and realize the order isn’t how I’d like. At that point if I’m holding the mouse, why not.

Frequently when I'm making lists and I am reorganizing the order.

Or I'm wiritng a recipe and get the directions in the wrong order.

Sometimes I'm writing an article and I move sentences around to improve the flow of the article.

I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists

Me.

I use highlight/middle click paste a lot which I suppose is similar.

I use it occasionally when reorganizing code. It's easier to just drag and drop blocks of code than to ctrl-x ctrl-v. I don't do it for anything in the middle of a line though, because it seems too easy to make a mistake.

I use it at work sometimes because our help desk randomly started crashing when I pasted into it from OneNote, but dragging the text from OD into the text box works for some reason.

Is this using a PC? Maybe I would.

If this is from a smartphone... I wouldn't I guess... I often prefer to retype than dealing with the select text feature... It seems I get the same experience in the most recent mobile OS that I had when I used my iPod Touch 4G a lot of years ago, why does it feel that this feature hasn't even evolved? I can't be the only one that feels it is terrible to use, I prefer to use the keyboard gestures than dealing with it.

I use it a lot.

I use it on desktop when I'm trying to rephrase something I've written to make my meaning more clear or improve the flow.

I have ulnar nerve damage so when i hit ctrl+c/x/v i often don't quite depress C/X or V fully without thinking about it. So i use drag text quite often.

I've only very rarely had drag text misfire unintentionally.

No. But who talks about this kind of thing?

Sometimes I'm too lazy to reach the keyboard

I very often mark the word or text and drag and drop it to the top of the browser, so it starts instantl a search about this.

Way faster than using many extra steps

diwkp

No but why did you take the spaces with it? Leave the spaces so when it moves you don’t have to add it back

Only within a web browser, generally to drag something from a page to the search bar

Once in a blue moon? Not habitually though

Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying 'repeat your email' fields that won't let you paste.

nah

Ctrl x Ctrl v

adults in computer classes/training use this all. the. time. I see it everyday

I'm not against the idea but I don't personally use this. It could be useful in certain edge case, for instance in very tricky formatting situation in a rich text editor.

One thing that is annoying is doing it by accident, especially if you don't realize it and continue editing so now you can't undo either.

Also, this feature should live update as you drag stuff around, not only once you release the button.

I did actually, but I really appreciate the visual style of teaching computer tips and tricks, you should post more of them!

Not the way you did in the example, but when I want to copy text from a website that has ctrl-c blocked, I drag and drop onto a text editor.

I have used it once

Maaaaybe if I'm moving whole paragraphs around? But even then I'd probably cut and paste

Only times I have ever used it for anything has been whenever I've created an account for Perplexity* using a temp email and need the verification code but don't wanna copy or type it out.

*I only use their AI for inconsequential things that have no impact on my life and are otherwise pointless, like writing very dumb stories.

Nope, when writing on a PC I avoid touching NY mouse anyway.

Interesting. I'll try it out!

What were you trying to achieve?
You selected the spaces on either side and dragged - it did what you asked it to?

If it automatically selected the spaces on either side, I hate that - totally justifiable anger.