Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 2, 2004 @08:15AM from the it-works-well-enough-once-you-learn-how-to-use-it dept.

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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Re:Common problem.. by mackman · 2004-06-02 08:55 · Score: 0, Redundant

Select the url you want to paste, type Ctrl-L to highlight the old URL without putting it in the clipboard, hit delete, then middle click to paste.
Re:Here is the way it SHOULD work. by Sabotage · 2004-06-02 09:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

So, you use emacs?