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> 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
by Beltalowda 4y 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.
- enriquto 4y 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.
- Beltalowda 4y agoI 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.
- Tistron 4y agoYes, the Mac is the only system doing this right
- nicoburns 4y agoI 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!
- account42 4y agoClipboard 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).