This new feature that allows you to connect what’s in your pasteboard to the selected path is a feature I rarely need, especially when I am cutting and pasting something. In those cases the shape don’t match and don’t make sense to replace onto the line.
When I delete something, the last point remaining is still selected and when I paste now, the content of the pasteboard gets pasted onto the end and is not what I need.
I suggest making the paste-replace shortcut Cmd+Alt+V (like paste special!), so that Cmd+V remains the normal paste.
I agree, this is a feature I do not want; it doesn’t work the way I want even when I want to use it, and there is a bug in selection after cutting a segment. When I cut open a path by selecting on-curve nodes (not just handles if on a curved segment), a wrong node is selected; probably the third node from the start node?
I don’t hate paste-replace as much as I used to, and it has been helpful for a particular set of alternates in Burmese, but I’d happily see it off by default and use alt to enable it.
That particular glyph needed different endings on a straight segment, and it worked fine. Other times it’s often attaching at a funny angle and just creating extra work (undoing, deselecting nodes, repasting).
(EDIT As I mentioned back in October, I was looking for a way to disable paste-replace: Pasting-replacing
I think having it enabled on alt is better than having it on by default.)
Certainly. In the current implementation, 1. making sure to deselect all and 2. having to remember which node selection does which behaviour are not what I want to do. Even if it works in the way that Glyphs intended, I would still prefer to have it as an option. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12398274/Pasted%20Path%20Attachment.mp4
I agree with oneweioranother, Cmd+V should have a standard behavior and the smart trick should have a dedicated shortcut. Cmd+Alt+V sounds like a good idea to me. Anyway, you may add extra functionality to Cmd+Alt+V in the future, Georg, for instance Paste to Background, so I can imagine a popup menu after clicking Paste Special.