I do understand the issue you are dealing with.
The insertion point of a selection when using ‘Copy’ > ‘Paste’ is its lowest X,Y,Z.
You seemed to be willing to accept a shortcut key to repeat using ‘paste’ for getting copies. But the disadvantage is the fixed insertion pont.
But how about using the ‘Move’ tool and now only hitting [Ctrl] per move gives you the **+**sign and still gives you the opertunity to change the handle per move. There is no need to repeatedly select move and [Ctrl}, only [Ctrl].
So one key and various handles, also on Mac. use the [Option] key
Yes, I do accept that hitting the modifier key for each repeat is fairly simple. I guess I am merely saying that a dedicated key that needs no modifier would be simpler still. I guess the developers could have designed the Move tool so that you had to use the Select tool and a modifier. But it wouldn’t have been as good as the Move tool they did design!
I slightly feel that this is similar to something I brought up with CAD developers years back when I was trying to convince them that being able to “draw” directly on a screen is far preferable to using a mouse and having to draw at one remove. This was long before touch screen technology was common. The developers kept saying to me, “Hey bud, the mouse is a great invention. Embrace it.” It didn’t matter how much I said that the finger was an even better one, it was a question of Mice Rule - OK! It is ironic that we can now draw direct on screens.
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