Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Wed May 31 20:23:40 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 11:54 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
>> So, basically, there are two clipboards in X. If you select text with
>> the mouse, you can paste it with the middle button. If you use the
>> "copy" menu item (or ctrl+c), you can paste it with the "paste" menu
>> item (or ctrl+v). As long as you don't try to mix the two, like
>> expecting "paste" to insert something that you selected with the mouse,
>> you should be fine.
>
> That's a little confusing. Almost everywhere the keyboard versions
> of copy/paste work there is also a right-mouse menu that works
> the same way as the keyboard
That's what I said.
> , so the distinction isn't between using
> the mouse and the keyboard
That's not what I said.
> Since many applications need
> the keystrokes for something else, you'll have a lot fewer surprises
> if you use the right-mouse method most places.
No, "many" applications don't use Ctrl+c/v or Ctrl/Shift+Ins for
something other than copy and paste. For the most part, only terminal
applications do that.
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