Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
5 hours ago
- Cut cannot be fully undone because clipboard changes persist even after undo.
- Cut reflows the document, making it harder to locate the paste point.
- Cut and paste is not atomic; undoing requires multiple steps and intermediate edits complicate it.
- Ghost Cut solves these issues: ctrl+x fades text inert, paste removes it atomically, no clipboard used, undoable in one step.
- Original cut semantics require two keys (copy + backspace) in Ghost Cut mode.