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Tip of the day: Quick copy/paste in linux
Dec 22, 2007 at 9:29 am - 3 Comments
Tip Of The Day
For many years, ctrl+c, ctrl+v, and ctrl+x have been my friends. I love keyboard shortcuts and these are the absolute essential 3! I didn't think copying and pasting could get any simpler, until I switched to linux! One really cool feature of linux is the ability to copy/paste text with only 2 clicks of the mouse. All you have to do is highlight the text that you want to copy, and then middle click where you want it to paste. Excellent!
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Scott Klarr - Feb 17, 2008
I do find the terminal's copy/paste to be a little frustrating having to resort to actually selecting, right clicking and copying, and then shift insert to paste, but other than that i haven't had any real issues with copy/paste in linux other than needing to have a clipboard app running in the background to make everything global.
Dave - Feb 17, 2008
Unfortunately, despite all the convenience of two-click copy/paste, copying and pasting in Linux really sucks.
It's implemented differently in every application, meaning that I can't copy something from my Terminal and paste it into Firefox with ctrl-v. I have to paste it with the middle-click. ctrl-v will simply paste the last thing I copied in Firefox. The same thing works going back the other way but in addition to that, ctrl-a doesn't work at all. Even if I want all of the text, I have to select all of it with the mouse if I want to paste it into my terminal.
This tip-of-the-day might be more than just a time-saving tip. It might be the key to being able to copy and paste at all !
j0t - Feb 09, 2008
Hi,
what if you want to copy something over antoher text, for ex. you select an unclicable URL and it is copied but when you select your current URL in the address bar and try to paste, you copy the old address and when you paste the old address is pasted.