Seriously, when that rolled out decades ago it was one of the dumbest things and still gets me. I always want to start a selection on the text. Dragging the text somewhere else never does what I want it to and I end up having to copy/paste anyway

When I'm using my browser, I select and drag text from the page to the tabs section of the browser window to open a new tab which queries my search engine using the text (unless the text was a URL, in which case the new tab goes to the URL). I could copy, open a new tab, paste, and press enter in some cases, but that opens a tab to the right of all other tabs, when sometimes I want my new search tab to be in a different position.

However, I would appreciate a setting that would let me arbitrarily switch between dragging vs reselecting already selected text.

Me, all the time, but mostly across applications and not within single documents.

Sometimes because I want to keep what’s in my clipboard already; other times because it’s sensitive enough data that I don’t necessarily trust all running applications with (the threat primarily being an application incidentally logging/persisting it as part of some “helpful” feature, not outright malware).

I just learned this was possible the other day and I've been using it all the time since

I do this in nvim. After making a visual selection I hold alt/option/meta and use j+k to move it up and down as a block. It's been helpful a few times when reorganizing things as I write them.

Many computer users have a hard time with invisible concepts. Copy and Cur put text away in some invisible buffer that some people don’t get, so dragging text works better for them.

I do use it occasionally but quite often if I’ve put text into the wrong field of a form. On Mac I quite often make text clippings by dragging text to the desktop

I would love a way to disable drag and drop behavior globally. I absolutely never want to use it, but it's easy to accidentally trigger it.

I do.

Are you talking about how code pasted in is never indented the way it originally was? It somehow adopts the indentation of the above line? I despise that.