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You don't need the mouse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I like your thinking. Give me Firefox with a TUI and POSIX shell i/o redirection support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

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.