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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by dredmorbius on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:18PM (#22144640)
Yes: you cannot DIRECTLY edit the URL in the navbar.

Nor, for that matter, can you click, ctrl-A (yes, Virginia, I have and use a Bluetooth keyboard). Instead it's click, then Copy Icon.

Utterly blinkered.

Oddly: Incognito mode is not (yet) crippled in this manner.

Don't get me started on pull-to-nuke-whatever-you'd-been-composing-or-losing-your-place-in-infernal-scroll

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by saghm on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:54PM (#22144784)
> yes, Virginia, I have and use a Bluetooth clipboard

I'm assuming from context that your mean keyboard, but the idea sounds kind of cool so I have to ask: any chance this is a term for a a bluetooth device solely designed to facilitate copy-pasting between other devices?

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by dredmorbius on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:12AM (#22144844)
Yes, thanks, edited.

For cross-device control, there's ... Synergy, I think:

https://symless.com/synergy

There's an Android client (I've no experience with it): https://sourceforge.net/projects/synergyandroid/

On the Android, there's Termux which offers a clipboard interface -- termux-clipboard-get and termux-clipboard-set which I've aliased as "xp" and "xc" respectively. (I have similar aliases for Linux and MacOS's respective clipboard manipulators.)

You can paste (including to remote SSH sessions) with the ctrl-alt-v keystroke.

It's possibly to select and copy screen regions, but tediously, so that piping to / from xc / xp is far more convenient. (I sometimes use this for composing / editing HN comments, more frequently on other sites.)

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by makomk on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:11AM (#22145666)
There's no such Bluetooth device that I know of, but KDE Connect used to allow cross-device copy and paste between Android and desktop over WiFi until Google killed that feature off by disabling the clipboard access it needed.
Re:Google backtracks on search results design by jlokier on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:16AM (#22146116)
That sounds so useful. I've wanted that so many times!

In practice, I end up manually typing in long URLs on my laptop that people send me over SMS or whatever, and manually typing in long, high-entropy passwords on my phone when I would rather copy-paste them from my laptop's password database.

(Not that I'm running KDE. But the feature sounds great.)

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by eitland on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:49PM (#22148234)
I know Safari allows you to send urls/tabs between devices and I'm fairly certain Firefox does to.
Re:Google backtracks on search results design by Rebelgecko on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:35AM (#22144921)
Logitech (and probably others) make wireless keyboards that let you copy/paste between different devices

edit: I should mention that I think this requires drivers on the computer end, so probably won't on iOS/Android

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by efreak on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:22PM (#22148416)
Such a keyboard wouldn't need drivers if it's programmed in to send multiple keypresses--ctrl+[axcv] works on standard Android text inputs and selections, as do the shift, arrows, home, end, pgup/dn etc.
Re:Google backtracks on search results design by Wowfunhappy on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:37PM (#22148486)
It would be possible for a keyboard could paste without drivers, but how would it know what was copied?