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by nicoburns 1340 days ago
I absolutely hate select to copy. It mostly ends up with me overwriting the clipboard unintentionally with data I don’t care about.

I quite like ctrl-c/ctrl-V (or cmd on a mac). Very easy to use while controlling the mouse with the other hand.
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Beltalowda 1340 days ago
> It mostly ends up with me overwriting the clipboard unintentionally with data I don’t care about.

I mostly find it really useful for "quick copies", like the quote from your post here. I don't really care if it gets overwritten because it's only relevant for a few seconds. For anything else you can still use ^C/^V on Linux.

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enriquto 1340 days ago
> you can still use ^C/^V on Linux

How do people stand these particular keybindings? They get so much in the way inside a terminal! They are possibly the worst choice of keys for something as important as copy/paste (if the keyboard is needed at all, but I digress).

^C = forcefully stop the current program

^V = escape to enter the next character verbatim

I use these two all the time, and I find it very confusing that they have a different meaning in other contexts.

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nicoburns 1340 days ago
I use a mac, so it's actually cmd-c and cmd-v for me. And ctrl-c and ctrl-v work in terminals as they normally do. Best of both in my opinion!
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Beltalowda 1340 days ago
I don't use it from my terminal; I just use the select mechanism there. In Vim I have some mappings to copy from and to the + and * registers though.

^V is probably rare enough that it's not a big deal, but ^C is indeed an unfortunate conflict.

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account42 1340 days ago
Clipboard is a GUI thing, terminal emulators are just that - emulators. Not really surprising that there are clashes.

I don't find it too hard to remember to use Ctrl+Shift+C/V in terminals (when I don't just use the primary selection).

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Tistron 1340 days ago
Yes, the Mac is the only system doing this right
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