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That requires using both hands and not only my left hand; if I'm scrolling around or clicking around, I'll have my right hand on my mouse. Ctrl+C/V is a one-han
by francislavoie 6y ago
That requires using both hands and not only my left hand; if I'm scrolling around or clicking around, I'll have my right hand on my mouse. Ctrl+C/V is a one-handed hotkey and works in every other application. I'm not going to use a different hotkey for a single application. Like I've already said, context switching is a nightmare. I want the same basic hotkeys everywhere.
- pmoriarty 6y agoYou could make Ctrl+V send SHIFT-INSERT if you wanted.
- francislavoie 6y agoOkay sure, but that still doesn't solve anything because the fundamental issue is with the Ctrl+C in Alacritty not behaving the way I'd want it to.
- pmoriarty 6y agoHmm.. I wonder if you could get your desired behavior by rebinding Ctrl+C in Alacritty to copy, and also using the "stty" command to change the keyboard shortcut that sends the interrupt signal from Ctrl+C to something else. The latter may be necessary because traditionally you would interrupt programs (like say a runaway cat command or some other long-running process) with Ctrl+C, so using Ctrl+C to copy would normally conflict with that. Though I suppose that a terminal could be implemented in such a way that Ctrl+C is used for copy if some text has been selected and when no text has been selected it could pass that Ctrl+C on to the application running in the terminal. This way Ctrl+C could remain as the shortcut for sending an interrupt signal to apps in the terminal, and you wouldn't have to mess with stty.