[efreak]

Copy and paste gives you visual feedback without reflowing the document. I also use it to intentionally add a marker in undo history in documents in not planning to change, as that way I can use the undo history to jump to different areas.

[croes]

Where does Copy give you feedback that you actually copied something?

[efreak]

The paste action gives you feedback by having the cursor move to the end of the selected text after it replaces the text you copied with itself.

If you're on Android, lately it actually does give feedback by putting the copied text into the predictive text/autocomplete bar above the keyboard (I find this annoying as I'm usually copying text to save for later use, and I use the appearance of text I want in the corrections as an indication I've swiped wrong. If only I could touch-type while lying down...). In other apps that don't display the keyboard, it sometimes gives you a toast that an app has access the clipboard, though it gives the same toast for pasting or just for accessing it (eg pasting with termux or using an RDP app that syncs the clipboard)

[croes]

That’s too late, if copy didn’t work or I copied the wrong part I have to go all the way back and select the part to copy again.

That’s why Ctrl-X, Ctrl-Z is the way

[eth0up]

In Linux, if under XFCE, strangely by default, Clipman keeps a log of all text ever copied, in a giant textsrc file ( .cache/xfce4/clipman/textsrc )

That is kind of the opposite though, and more of a passive, almost furtive, indelible clipboard feedback. I was pretty astonished to find it, hovering somewhere near 4MB with years of content.