New proposed text describing mouse copy/move of text

[alankilborn]

Copying or moving text can be accomplished by mouse drag-and-drop action (in the case of copying it requires an additional keyboard action). Here's how:

• Moving text: Make a selection of the text you wish to move, then left-click on the selection and drag the selected text to its desired new location in the document and release the left mouse button. During dragging, the mouse cursor will change to a box with a dashed outline to indicate that a move operation will take place when the mouse is released. If you change your mind and wish to abort the move, simply press the Esc key while you still have the left-mouse button pressed. While the dragging is occurring, if you decide you'd rather make a copy of the text, simply add in a press and hold of the Control key.
• Copying text: Make a selection of the text you wish to copy, then left-click on the selection and start dragging the selected text to the location where you want a duplicate version of the text inserted; while dragging add in a press and hold of the Control key. When you've reached your desired destination, release the left mouse button and then the Control key. During dragging, the mouse cursor will change to a box with a dashed outline with a smaller box with a + sign in it, to indicate that a copy operation will take place when the mouse is released. If you change your mind and wish to abort the copy, simply press the Esc key while you still have the left-mouse button pressed.
• Notes:
  • When copying text, it is important that no modifier keys (Shift, Control, Alt) are depressed/held when you start dragging the text. Yes, this will initially seem like a move operation, but adding in the Control key AFTER the drag has been started will turn it into a copy (and the mouse cursor will change accordingly).
  • These techniques work well with column-block selections, but with multiple stream selections perhaps less so: the multiple selections will be "jammed" together with no intervening delimiter at the destination position in the document. Of course, if the multiple selections were all full lines, they will still be full lines at their destination, so for this specific case the mouse move/copy is judged to work very well.

[pryrt]

My biggest question is where it would go? Should it go in a new subheading of Editing > Other Editing Commands and Shortcuts ? I almost thought maybe my new User Interface page... but that's focused on GUI-specific (tabs, toolbars, menubars, etc). I'll probably end up choosing E>OECaS unless you have a better suggestion.

[alankilborn]

E>OECaS

That sounds appropriate.