Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Being able to copy one block, then select a second block, paste that in from selection and then paste from clipboard makes a lot of CLI tasks quicker.

Which CLI are you using that’s hip to both the middle-click paste and the clipboard paste? What’s an example of a case where being able to hold two things in the buffer at once for pasting them both one after another makes things easier?

It’s not that I don’t believe you, I’m just literally having trouble wrapping my head around how this even happens. I mean, sure, I guess. My issue is I guess much more that there are a lot of tools that only deal with one clipboard or the other, and situations where it is impossible to copy and paste from one thing to another (or was until today) just because of which toolkit one or the other thing is choosing to use. If it was two clipboards that were well-supported from everywhere, and I could always just click “copy to clipboard” in the browser and go to terminal and hit Cmd-V or something to paste it, I wouldn’t be so irritable about it.

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