Paste styles

Musescore's handbook states:

MuseScore supports standard copy, cut, paste and swap with clipboard operations.

This kinda reminds me of Apple's documentation style, where incomplete, simplistic statements make everything seem easy, but important pieces of the story are omitted and left for users to discover for themselves:

a) I don't think a "standard copy/paste" method exists among music notation apps.

b) the paste operations methods to which most people are accustomed are essentially identical between text editors, email apps and texting apps:

   • The default mode is "Insert" (the pasted data goes after the "insertion point" and the subsequent text is pushed forward, and is thereby preserved.

   • The other main "standard" mode is "replace" where the pasted text replaces any selected text.

Best I can tell, we have neither such thing in Musescore (nor in other notation apps.) What we have I call "Clobber mode" where material in the path of the paste is obliterated. That's handy at times, but not always wanted, and certainly not the behavior most people would expect; i.e. this does NOT happen in text editors.

It has always struck me as odd: The main and most common model for copy does not exist in notation apps.

I think an "insert" style paste would be well received in Musescore.

Just sayin'.

scorster