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Sharing middle click between paste functionality and it's other popular functions makes it error prone and impractical at least for me. Copy paste is faster in
by LightHugger 5y ago
Sharing middle click between paste functionality and it's other popular functions makes it error prone and impractical at least for me. Copy paste is faster in a vacuum but the overall experience is worse. I think using thumb mouse buttons is more practical, and auto copy is better just avoided altogether.
Autoscroll is great by the way.
- lvass 5y agoMaybe that's why the "Un*x dogmatists" avoid adding functionality to mouse buttons. Middle click already has a great X11/Wayland feature and should stay that way.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoWayland tried to kill middle click paste.
- boogies 5y agoWhat do you mean?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> and auto copy is better just avoided altogether. Why? It's not costing anything, action-wise
- cnity 5y agoI may have something on my clipboard already. I "compulsively" highlight things as a reading aid and it's frustrating when I lose trust in my clipboard because it always contains fragments of text I don't care about.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI'm somewhat sympathetic, but I'm not sure that "I want to be able to give the machine input without it reacting" is a great objection to doing something with that input.
- taeric 5y agoBut, the selection buffer is not the same as the clipboard. Is it? That is, even in the paradigm of middle click to paste the last selection, you still have a clipboard, don't you?