duplicate should keep the copy in the same location, and paste should follow the mouse, but possibly should be in the same place if the mouse hasn't moved yet...

I think the last part (watching if the mouse has moved) is too difficult to implement, enough to have a separate "paste to original location" command

It would be nice to get a visual identification on the cloning of an object though, with the mouse pointer changing and/or the statusbar changing when a hotkey is depressed to do cookiecutter duplication of an object.

Cloning (as I see it) requres quite a lot of UI changes. I did not think about them in detail yet.

I know there is the weird spacebar super-clone that is somewhat similar. That is already implemented, but not in documentation very prominently.

It's not cloning, just copying, the copies have no connection to the original (what I had in mind was something different)

A couple of other things: It would be good to fix the menu item "Stoke to Path" to say "Stroke to Path" (TYPO).

Thanks, fixed

I think a good feature would be to add more hotkeys while editing and dragging objects. A good feature of illustration programs is to hold the alt key and get to drag a new copy and leave the old one behind.

Space does that to some extent, although admittedly less convenient

And better still, is if you hold the shift key down and you can constrain the new copy to 90 deg. angles (or whatever is the pref).

Not only for copy - dragging anyting with ctrl should restrict to hor/vert, this is in todo already

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