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

TIL

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

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 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.

Me.

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.

I use it a lot.

No. But who talks about this kind of thing?

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

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

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.

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

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