>10 years later, copy-paste is still a horrible user experience. Different apps use different clipboards :scream: Even for copying these commands from Firefox to the terminal with keyboard shortcuts (CTRL INSERT, SHIFT INSERT, as CTRL C has a different meaning in terminals), you'll need copy-paste fixed already.
IMO this thing is way overblown. What applications these days do not simply use primary and clipboard selections in a consistent way? (FTR I like them separate very much as I would hate to have my clipboard contents change by simply selecting some text.) Middle click is not a shortcut for Ctrl+V!
Ctrl-C is indeed used to send SIGINT to the foreground processes in terminals and thus terminal emulators, and the established alternative for terminal emulators is to replace Ctrl-C/V copy/paste with Ctrl+Shift+C/V (I think that's how even cmd.exe works these days). Copying and sending a SIGINT would hardly be a useful default.
Highlight and use The middle mouse button to past (often you can “click” the wheel of a mouse with a scroll wheel for middle button.). It’s quite fast.
When I switch to a Mac at work I miss this functionality (though middle button copy works in the Mac terminal)
And honestly on Mac copy/paste between jet brains software and x windows, it’s not working great on all Mac apps either..
In fairness to the author, if you're used to cmd+c and are switching to Linux (or Windows for that matter), the ctrl+c / ctrl+shift+c could be a little jarring.
I say this because I have ctrl(+shift)+c committed into muscle memory and find it jarring to use cmd+c
Is there a way to configure a <Super> or <Meta>-C/-V on linux to be copy/paste in a halfway compatible way? I often struggle too with my <Cmd>-C/-V muscle memory when using linux.
IMO this thing is way overblown. What applications these days do not simply use primary and clipboard selections in a consistent way? (FTR I like them separate very much as I would hate to have my clipboard contents change by simply selecting some text.) Middle click is not a shortcut for Ctrl+V!
Ctrl-C is indeed used to send SIGINT to the foreground processes in terminals and thus terminal emulators, and the established alternative for terminal emulators is to replace Ctrl-C/V copy/paste with Ctrl+Shift+C/V (I think that's how even cmd.exe works these days). Copying and sending a SIGINT would hardly be a useful default.