I think in general, (or when pasting to the same window) it would be nice to paste into the last clicked coordinate.

In any case I am so used to it by now that I can survive in these conditions.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Miller Puckette <mpuckett@imusic1.ucsd.edu> wrote:

I think if pasting to the same window this would be reasonable - but I've
always had in mind, instead, to paste the objects to a new place determined
by current cursor position, which would be far better. Just haven't been
able to think it through and do it.

M

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same
> response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels
> in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste doesn't
> do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the
> current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command,
> but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy-paste
> and you need a special function.
>
> .hc
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