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Yeah I got that it is displaying correctly, I just did not understand what it did. Even reading the introduction again it is not clear.

I am not sure it is useful though, what developer doesn't have copy/paste as a muscle memory action? Furthermore the window management alone would be just a tad annoying to make it useful.

It is neat though, but a novelty as far as actual usefulness goes.

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That's a good point. Challenging copy/paste behaviour with drag and drop is certainly hard and will likely not be adopted by that many people. However it is also the (only) way to sort snippets into lists - Maybe think of it as sorting Mails into different folders, which mostly happens the same way.

It is also kind of convenient to drag snippets into your editor, because you don't have to select the code (which would also happen via mouse). In any case it is not the only option to grab your snippets, so you can still go cmd+c / cmd+v. No harm done in giving the option imho.

I'm also looking into generally copying a snippet to the clipboard when hitting cmd+c on a single snippet page - That would probably be my personal favorite. Maybe even yours as well?

Cmd+C on the whole page in general would be nice, yes. Unless something is selected I guess.

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