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I'm more than okay with that. Middle click paste is one of the weirdest user experience elements and it does not even safe much time and is very easy to miss e

I'm more than okay with that. Middle click paste is one of the weirdest user experience elements and it does not even safe much time and is very easy to miss execute.

oakwhiz 13y ago
It's really useful when you have to paste many things repeatedly in a way that has some spatial ordering. But most of the time I dislike middle-click paste (and highlight-to-copy) because I will occasionally copy and paste things accidentally. Some kind of keyboard shortcut to toggle this behavior might be quite handy.
- m_mueller 13y ago
  I recommend using something like Sublimes Multicursor instead. 1) Ctrl-alt-L: Give me a cursor at the end of all selected lines. 2) Select the line paces you want to paste using normal editor keyboard commands. 3) Ctrl-C 4) Go to the place in your lines where you want to paste (or click somewhere to get a new cursor and paste everything newline separated) 5) Ctrl-V Scales to however many lines you want to do this to, with 'constant programmer time' ;-).
NoodleIncident 13y ago
Its a beautiful command when all you have is a touchpad. Click both right and left to paste the last selected text.
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  Which is why I prefer Lenovo touchpads: three buttons. Actually, mine has five: Three at the top (corresponding to the mouse buttons), generally used with the trackpoint. Another two at the bottom (two-button mouse), used with the trackpad (which I've, of course, disabled in BIOS like any sane user would).
VMG 13y ago
Don't forget that it is one of two buffers, called PRIMARY for whatever reason (there is no secondary). If you select and press Ctrl-C, the content goes to CLIPBOARD. I can't count the number of times I've yelled expletives when I pasted the wrong buffer by mistake. There should only be one clipboard.
- zero_intp 13y ago
  There is only one clipboard. plus an additional text buffer. As a multi system user with only one k/m input (windows/red hat), I love the differentiated buffer capability. It allows discrete usage of cntl x/c/v across systems and STILL allows me to manipulate c/p actions while multitasking.
  - drdaeman 13y ago
    There are lots of buffers in X, actually, it's just that only 2 are most commonly used. There're PRIMARY, SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD selections, and long-obsolete (but still accidentally used to implement cut/yank rings - a feature long forgotten by many) 8 cut buffers (CUT_BUFFER0 to CUT_BUFFER7). Check yourself: http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  I have xclip installed (it copies/pastes from the X11 clipboard as a commandline utility), and having long had 'xc' and 'xp' shell scripts, finally added 'xpc' to paste from the 'CLIPBOARD' buffer after getting frustrated once too often that I wasn't able to do so. I'll use these to "read in" files: xc < filename And then in vim (faster than toggling paste mode): r ! xp or r ! xpc # for CLIPBOARD buffer
  - marmaduke 13y ago
    hm, why not just "+P ?
    - dredmorbius 13y ago
RivieraKid 13y ago
For me it's one of Linux's killer features. When I program I use it a lot. It's much more comfortable than selecting with the mouse, pressing Ctrl+C, clicking on the destination and pressing Ctrl+V.

I'm more than okay with that. Middle click paste is one of the weirdest user experience elements and it does not even safe much time and is very easy to miss execute.

oakwhiz 13y ago

It's really useful when you have to paste many things repeatedly in a way that has some spatial ordering. But most of the time I dislike middle-click paste (and highlight-to-copy) because I will occasionally copy and paste things accidentally. Some kind of keyboard shortcut to toggle this behavior might be quite handy.

m_mueller 13y ago
I recommend using something like Sublimes Multicursor instead. 1) Ctrl-alt-L: Give me a cursor at the end of all selected lines. 2) Select the line paces you want to paste using normal editor keyboard commands. 3) Ctrl-C 4) Go to the place in your lines where you want to paste (or click somewhere to get a new cursor and paste everything newline separated) 5) Ctrl-V Scales to however many lines you want to do this to, with 'constant programmer time' ;-).

NoodleIncident 13y ago

Its a beautiful command when all you have is a touchpad. Click both right and left to paste the last selected text.

dredmorbius 13y ago
Which is why I prefer Lenovo touchpads: three buttons. Actually, mine has five: Three at the top (corresponding to the mouse buttons), generally used with the trackpoint. Another two at the bottom (two-button mouse), used with the trackpad (which I've, of course, disabled in BIOS like any sane user would).

VMG 13y ago

Don't forget that it is one of two buffers, called PRIMARY for whatever reason (there is no secondary). If you select and press Ctrl-C, the content goes to CLIPBOARD. I can't count the number of times I've yelled expletives when I pasted the wrong buffer by mistake. There should only be one clipboard.

zero_intp 13y ago
There is only one clipboard. plus an additional text buffer. As a multi system user with only one k/m input (windows/red hat), I love the differentiated buffer capability. It allows discrete usage of cntl x/c/v across systems and STILL allows me to manipulate c/p actions while multitasking.
- drdaeman 13y ago
  There are lots of buffers in X, actually, it's just that only 2 are most commonly used. There're PRIMARY, SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD selections, and long-obsolete (but still accidentally used to implement cut/yank rings - a feature long forgotten by many) 8 cut buffers (CUT_BUFFER0 to CUT_BUFFER7). Check yourself: http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
dredmorbius 13y ago
I have xclip installed (it copies/pastes from the X11 clipboard as a commandline utility), and having long had 'xc' and 'xp' shell scripts, finally added 'xpc' to paste from the 'CLIPBOARD' buffer after getting frustrated once too often that I wasn't able to do so. I'll use these to "read in" files: xc < filename And then in vim (faster than toggling paste mode): r ! xp or r ! xpc # for CLIPBOARD buffer
- marmaduke 13y ago
  hm, why not just "+P ?
  - dredmorbius 13y ago

RivieraKid 13y ago

For me it's one of Linux's killer features. When I program I use it a lot. It's much more comfortable than selecting with the mouse, pressing Ctrl+C, clicking on the destination and pressing Ctrl+V.