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Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm?
MolecularBear asks: "I grew up on Windows machines, using the ol' ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste. For the past few years I've been a hardcore Linux user, running it almost exclusively at home and at work. As I am sure you are all aware, highlighting text in Linux automatically performs a copy while the middle mouse button performs a paste. The Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v standard works in many applications, but not all. Lately I have begun to find the automatic highlight-copy to be annoying. As in, I'll highlight text to copy it, then realize I want to highlight a block of text for the purpose of deleting it. Of course, the second highlighting overwrites the first highlighting. I am curious about how other people accomplish their copy/paste needs. Any special setups, applications, or words of wisdom?"
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I believe using Emacs will solve this problem.
Keep the faith, share the code
Anyone else select text as they are reading it? While in the unix terminal, this gets annoying as I may want to highlight without actually copying and erasing what I had copied before.
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Every time I select something and then middle click to paste it in a Windows application nothing happens. Unless I am trying to paste a URL in to a browser window, then I get some annoying cursor that moves the current page up and down instead of sending the browser the URL I want to view.
Don't even get me started on the brokenness of the title bar and window decorations. Sheesh!
Scenario: I've got xterm open, chatting with friends. Somebody sends the room a URL.
Windows way: I highlight and hit CTRL+C to copy
Ah, I see you don't have a Windows terminal window open, because that wouldn't work. You'd have to do Alt-Space, E, K, highlight the area with the mouse, Keypad Enter.
So say thank-you for your special non Microsoft Windows terminal emulator.
Personally, I would just select with the mouse in X, which is actually one action, not "so fluid as to be practically one action", pop over to my Mozilla window, hit Ctrl-T for a new tab, paste directly into the empty URL bar and press return.
But then, I never have to use Windows, so I don't have to make my habits cross-platform. I do use the MacOS X, where I've learnt to Command-C, go to Mozilla, Command-T, Command-V, Enter.
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