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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