[xg15]

"Ghost cut" is basically how Excel has always done cut&paste, I think maybe without involving the clipboard at all.

Looks like there are two different expectations of cut&paste. Most software seem to treat it as simply a copy&paste with a "delete" action tacked on, while the author (and Excel) treat it as "move content around inside the document".

I get the author and the frustrating undo behavior but I'd also like to add that Ghost Cut is less flexible than the "traditional" cut&paste interpretation: Ghost Cut expects me to always have exactly one location where I want to move the content and expects that this location is in the same program or even in the same document. Traditional cut&paste doesn't have those limitations.

On the other hand, if traditional cut&paste is just glorified copy&paste anyway, I think not much would be lost by replacing it with the Ghost Cut interpretation - people can still get the "traditional" behavior by doing a copy and then pressing backspace...

[maximilianthe1]

I very often use cut&paste as "delete line" in IDEs by placing cursors anywhere on the target line without selection area.

Winthout selection area, most IDEs cut the whole line. That shortcut is very close to left hand anduch easier than any other way.

Ghost cut would butcher this usecase.