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

submitted 4 weeks ago by Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks 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

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 weeks 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.