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notabot@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m still using X11, so this might be different in wayland, but in just about everything shift-insert pastes the selection and ctrl-v pastes the clipboard. In terminals paste from clipboard is ctrl-shift-v as ctrl-v already had a purpose.

Copying to selection just involves highlighting the text, copying to clipboard is ctrl-c or ctrl-shift-c in a terminal.

I had to actually think about those as they’re basically just muscle memory now! I might use the clipboard to store a path I need to use in multiple places, maybe in multiple tools, and the selection for ephemeral data like a snippet of output from the last command, or an ID value from a web page, something like that. It’s a bit tricky to explain, it’s just the way it’s always worked on unix and linux UIs, and it just becomes second nature to think with those tools.

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