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STEVE: So, but it could be something like you're positing, also.
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And then Windows looks at what's on the clipboard and gives it, like, the best of what it's able to accept. STEVE: Yeah, well, it's a feature of the app saying this is what I'm able to accept. And then, if you paste that into an app which is not rich text-aware, that is, the app only knows plain text, then you just - it strips the rich text out and only does plain text. And you are able, for example, you're able to copy rich text, for example, that's got, like, much more embellishments on the text, into the Windows clipboard. STEVE: Yes, it's a very similar mechanism. But I don't know what's happening on Windows, or if it's related.
TWEAK SMOOTHCURSOR ONLY WORKING SOMETIMES MAC
And so on the Mac I think that's what's happening. And my sense is that sometimes there's an impedance mismatch between the data that was copied and what can be pasted in the target program. The receiving application would have to understand that formatting. So the application may say, well, I want you to say this is text, RTF, whatever. And it stores data on the paste board with formatting, and sometimes in a variety of ways, depending on the application, what the application is saying.
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I know how the Mac's does because I used to write more software for the Mac. So my sense is, and I don't know how the Windows paste board works. And you'll go to another field, and there's nothing there. And the Mac highlights briefly the edit menu when you do that to say, yeah, I got a Command-C, so you know that the Command-C has been issued. Occasionally on a Macintosh you will select text, do a Command-C, which is copy command on the Mac. So I've been paying attention, and it has happened to me on Macs, as well. And I thought it hadn't - but I use Macs most of the time, and it hadn't happened to me on Macs. Now, during the show I said, yeah, I've had it happen to me. But they want to find out if there is one. LEO: Well, you know, you probably heard him say that Microsoft's sending somebody out. So it seems that pasting is reliable, but copying often isn't.
In fact, sometimes I'll be pasting what I had on the clipboard before because it didn't get replaced by the Ctrl-C. STEVE: But as enough people are beginning to say yes, that's happening to me, too, there's this growing momentum behind this idea that there's some subtle bug in good old Windows copy-and-paste that isn't, at least in the copy side, that isn't copying. pressed the wrong button, or it didn't have focus, or I didn't press it hard enough or, I mean, who knows? But it definitely - and as you said, Leo, it's so easy for the whole Windows community to think, well, maybe I just.
But, I mean, it's not - it doesn't always not work. And I don't know when they broke it or how they broke it. I mean, this is - it's been something that's been really annoying for some length of time. He said, "You know, it's occurred to me that maybe there's actually a bug that no one has ever detected before, which who knows when it came along but it's, like, Windows is not reliably responding to Ctrl-C for copying whatever is currently marked into the Windows clipboard." And when he said that, I mean, when I heard him say that, I thought, yeah. And Paul said, you know, he was sort of scratching his head. I was listening to you and Paul do Windows Weekly last Thursday. We should back up a little bit for people who aren't aware. STEVE: And, I mean, and I'm sure the app has focus. In fact, it's gotten so bad for me that I'm sometimes right-clicking on the blob that I select and then choosing copy because Ctrl-C just doesn't seem to grab it all the time. And Paul, too, because we just thought it was us. STEVE: I'm sure there is something broken. STEVE: I absolutely wanted to chime in on Paul Thurrott's. I thought it was just me until I heard this on security now a while back. You will select something, press ctrl+c only to realize when you go and paste that nothing got copied to the clipboard. I don't know if anyone else here has noticed that ctrl+c sometimes doesn't work.
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