Option to disable Ctrl+C auto-copying entire line if nothing is selected, and instead do nothing

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Hello,

I am currently getting really annoyed by the fact that pressing ctrl-c without previously selecting text still copies the line the cursor resides in. Apparently this is not a bug, but it is a behavior I would be very happy to freely disable.

Some editors do this, but most do not. Of all the editors and word processors I could test, this seems to be default behavior only in Visual Studio Code and Obsidian.

R Studio, Notepad++, Word, Octave, Matlab, SciTE, plain notepad (and AHK Studio, but nobody here will know that probably) all don’t do this.

I would be very happy if this could be toggled off. Both from a normal user’s perspective who probably doesn’t expect this behavior*, and from my perspective as it can be very problematic for me. If nothing is selected, the user doesn’t expect ctrl-c to muddy the clipboard, which can be problematic if the user is keeping some relevant info on there and has to go and recopy it again.

I solve most my problems I have with obsidian with autohotkey, and checking if text is selected relies on checking if I can copy stuff to the clipboard. If that is always the case, there are a lot of problems ahead for me, and a good bit of functionality I can write off now.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
~Gw

* Considering word doesn’t have it as default, and word-like behaviour is what is often expected as default - even if the software doesn’t have a lot in common with it, like obsidian.

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I would also love this feature. It happens to me regularly that I’m trying to paste something into Obsidian and I accidentally hit ctrl C at first instead of ctrl V, and then when I do hit ctrl V I just get a duplicate of the line, rather than the thing I meant to copy.

This feature (copying the whole line when there’s no selection) has often been an inconvenience to me, and never helpful (it’s just too easy to select a whole line and copy it with a few keystrokes), so I would love to be able to turn it off.

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Looks like the moderators are linking people who ask in the help forum to this feature request, so for any future people who come here, that’s probably where you wanna go if you want to voice support for this feature