• electricprism@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    does this suggest that copy/paste from the terminal is broken by design and we need find a better way?

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      2 months ago

      Vim has a better way, it’s called :set clipboard=unnamedplus (alternatively, one can bind anything else to copy/paste to/from system cliboards). Not sure why would one use a mouse for this, honestly

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        2 months ago

        I think if you want to copy a specific selection to a mouse-based, different program then it makes sense to use the mouse for precision selection.

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      2 months ago

      Might I suggest a common set of keybinds… maybe C for copy, and v for vaste… maybe use ctrl as well?

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Ctrl is already used my a large number of commands in POSIX shells. This is one of the places that I really like Apple’s solution (despite really not liking most of what they do). Super/GUI/Command + c/v is a great improvement in the terminal.