Having just moved from from MS Word, I noticed Scriv 3 doesn’t adjust spaces between words, phrases, sentences, etc., when cutting, moving, & pasting. Adopting the way Word handles these things would greatly improve the Scriv 3 editing experience. Word handles the reinsertion of spaces intelligently. Scriv 3 does not.
You want the smart copy/paste option. Scrivener → Settings → Editing → Options on the Mac. Probably Tools → Options → Editing on the PC.
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It is not available under Windows, to my knowledge.
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Without an example, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Some softwares, if you select a word and cut it, you don’t end up with two spaces where the word initially was.
And when pasting it somewhere else, a space is added, before or after, whichever is needed, so that you don’t end up with “wordword”.
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Good answer. That disability results in many extra keystrokes when editing.
You could potentially hijack these cut and paste commands using autohotkey.
You’d combo up Ctrl-x with Ctrl-space (which removes double spaces),
and Ctrl-v with two spaces added at cursor position, one left arrow, then paste, then Ctrl-space.
But even then, you couldn’t drag and drop.
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I know exactly what you mean and couldn’t live without it (metaphorically speaking, you understand).
As kewms pointed out above, smart copy/paste is the first checkbox alternative in Scrivener’s Settings, second part (Editing). It’s been available since Scrivener 1, I think.
/JHS