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by chrisseaton 1985 days ago
> 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!

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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.