How to paste in the desired place with Xara ?

[Acorn]

I see that if you right click and immediately drag before the context menu appears, then a copy is dragged
Right-Drag to copy selection appears as part of the status line if you let the context menu appear
this might be called confusing

Nope, right-click & release gets the context menu. Right-click, hold and drag is the copy action. 'Right-Drag' is simply one operation - "I didn't tell you to let go!"

I try yo be precise with things like Shift+Alt+Ctrl+(key)... means hold all the mentioned keys (the first three are meta-keys that do nothing until a 'real' key is pressed), while Alt-U-H is press and release each key in the given order (although you can hold them all down as in chording but the order is important lt-H-U being different).

No more confusing as short and long touches on a smartphone.

Acorn

[handrawn]

ok

but I still don't see the specific status bar message Right-Drag to copy selection by right click hold, only by right click release...

[Acorn]

ok
but I still don't see the specific status bar message Right-Drag to copy selection by right click hold, only by right click release...

So handrawn, it has to boil down to semantics as to when an operation is fully invoked.
In Xara, the termination actions are Mouse Up (release)/Mouse Down (click)/Enter/Tab/Delete. Only Tab is continuous and cyclic, unless you are in text mode (Enter is forever - until memory or patience ends).
If you were told to drag something physical, you would drag forever or drag stop (release).
There is no real forever in Xara (c.f., Tab & Enter) so drag stop has to be the accepted action, albeit a tacit one.

Remember Xara's roots are in the Acorn Archimedes where its RISC OS made much more logical use of key actions than MS Windows ever has.

Acorn

[handrawn]

ok

understood

[gaftalik]

Guys thank you, i just learned the shift+ctrl+V to paste in the same place on next page and the long left click or right click to drag a copy of the object and many more.
Many thanks for your time and input!

[handrawn]

you are welcome

xara has a few different kind of paste operations, one of its good features...