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"Drag" selected text using the keyboard?

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Mar 15, 20268730 views

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If I select some text in a text input field/area/window, I can drag that text to another position somewhere within the text area using the mouse. Is it possible to do this dragging using the keyboard? I can imagine some global key shortcut existing that would allow me to "drag" the text selection u…

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