Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 18:27 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
>
>> I would be very happy if ctrls c, x and v would work the way they are
>> expected to work across the board.
>
> I expect control-c to interrupt and kill an application as it has
> for decades.  Why would you want to change that?

CTRL-C in a terminal window kills the running program launched from that 
window.  CTRL-C doesn't (and never has in my recollection) kill the window 
itself.

>
>>  That the functionality seems to
>> vary among applications (along with right-click, middle-click and
>> shift-insert) makes life a whole lot more complicated than it should
>> be. Sometimes, it is rather frustrating if you are moving text
>> around a great deal between applications and sometimes the command
>> line.
>
> Still, no one has said what doesn't work with right-mouse/copy and
> paste.  I use those with synergy making a single keyboard/mouse
> span several machines, both Linux and windows and there are few
> exceptions to right-mouse copy/paste working the same even when
> the clipboard gets dragged over to a different OS.

Having to reach for the mouse is a pain in the butt.  Usually, keyboard 
shortcuts are much more efficient (modulo the need to learn new ones for 
every damned program--the fact that CTRl-W in the location field kills the 
current Firefox window is annoying as all get-out, because in most 
terminals it just backward-deletes a word).

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs