2026-10-31 17:08 UTC
@arroz@mastodon.social I think that’s actually a vestige of nextstep, having all search fields pull from the find pasteboard. that’s how cmd-e cmd-g works to find the next occurrence of a selection
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@arroz@mastodon.social 2026-10-31 17:11
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @slava@mathstodon.xyz But it doesn’t happen on other apps and I don’t remember ever seeing this behaviour. I just checked with TextEdit and it works as it should, two totally independent fields. Maybe Safari is failing to verify if the field is empty before copying the value from that shared clipboard? And yes this raises many privacy questions.
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@Gte@mastodon.social 2026-10-31 17:11
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @arroz@mastodon.social Was about to say this. There’s a global search. I believe Xcode exhibits the behavior too in cases. I’ve always found it very useful as I jump between programs / windows and search for the same thing. It is unusual for sure and I think breaks people’s mental model of how atomic each control is.