who would not want to paste in place?

Most people use copy/paste for moving objects to other documents or to other parts of a document. Therefore it makes perfect sense to paste into where you are working now, instead of the old place which may well be invisible in your current view area. If you want to duplicate an object without moving it, you don't need copy/paste; use simply Duplicate (Ctrl+D).

All vector apps I know paste into the current work area, not in the original place. It's kind of like in text editor: when you paste text, you want it to appear at your cursor, not in its original location, right?

Is there a way to have ctrl+v do paste in place instead of just paste? this already pissed me off, when I was using adobe indesign, but I was able to quickly change that. How do I do so in inkscape?

There's no easy way to do this until we make all shortcuts configurable (it's in our plans). For now you can edit src/shortcuts.cpp replacing

sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_v, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE, true); sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_V, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE, false);

sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | SP_SHORTCUT_ALT_MASK | GDK_v, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE_IN_PLACE, true); sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | SP_SHORTCUT_ALT_MASK | GDK_V, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE_IN_PLACE, false);

with

sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_v, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE_IN_PLACE, true); sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_V, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE_IN_PLACE, false);

sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | SP_SHORTCUT_ALT_MASK | GDK_v, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE, true); sp_shortcut_set (SP_SHORTCUT_CONTROL_MASK | SP_SHORTCUT_ALT_MASK | GDK_V, SP_VERB_EDIT_PASTE, false);

and recompile.

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