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markstos@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 24 hours ago

Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

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markstos@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 24 hours ago
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On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C. But what if there were hidden shortcut combos for copy and paste
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    23 hours ago

    The article doesn’t suggest using Control+C. It talks about dedicated copy and paste key codes, and you can program your keyboard to map those codes to whatever keys you like. They suggest Fn+C.

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      what about shift+insert amd ctrl+insert thats literally already there

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Because lots of people don’t have an insert key?

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      standards.xkcd

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        Holy shit can you guys read the article please? It’s an existing standard and a dedicated keycode

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        I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

        I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

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      We could use Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert like in the last three decades, but some of these keyboards apparently forgot about the Insert key.

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        Well yeah but shift insert is annoying as hell since the keys are so far apart

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