It’s tough to agree with Google Drive’s just now getting copy / paste shortcuts

Google has announced that it’s adding the capacity to apply keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste documents in Drive, as long as you’re the use of Chrome. The feature will use th— okay, hold on just a minute here. Are you really trying to inform me that we couldn’t already do this?

Sure enough, when I went to Google Drive at the web and pressed Command + C on a document, then went into a folder and pressed Command + V, not anything happened. And this December 2021 archive of Drive’s listing of keyboard shortcuts doesn’t say anything about the functions. Which is fine, really — it’s not like keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, and paste have been round since the functions’ invention in the 1970s.

The function’s rolling out now, though, and Google’s post says that you’ll be capable of use the usual Control / Command + C, X, and V to copy and move documents around like you would in pretty much any other file manager. The organization says the function should be to be had to everybody by June 4th.

While Google’s very late to the party on this one, at the least its implementation isn’t half-assed. Yes, it’s adding the primary shortcuts, but the function will also work throughout different tabs (Google’s also added a keyboard shortcut for starting a folder as a brand new tab: Ctrl / Cmd + Enter). And, in case you copy a file and then attempt to paste it into, say, a Google Doc or email, it’ll insert the file’s title and a link to it.