[carlosrg]

>the existing convention

It is the existing convention, the Mac Finder convention. And yes, it's effectively the same as cut and paste.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Do you not think that it's terrible UX, to have cmd+x followed by cmd+v for cut and paste in some places and cmd+c followed by option+cmd+v for cut and paste in others?

[pseudalopex]

I think it's terrible UX for cut to mean different things in Explorer and Word.

[chrisseaton]

> It is the existing convention, the Mac Finder convention.

I think the point is this doesn't match the convention in the rest of the macOS. A convention of one is a poor convention!

[carlosrg]

If you mean cut text and so on, it doesn't match because they're not the same thing. When editing a text document, if you cut some part, it actually goes away. If you saved the document at that point, that selection would be gone.

On files, if you cut a file on Windows for example, nothing happens. Until you paste, no operation is done. So it's not the same thing, and I think the way Finder handles it makes more sense.