Spyke
errerreply
lemmy.world

Use ctrl +shift +c to copy in terminal

Ah yes the classic dangerous command made safe by a modifier key. Put the gun to your head and pull the trigger, just make sure you’re holding down the shift key and it’s all good!

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Ctrl+insert to copy and shift+insert also works! It was the DOS way of doing it.

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Or change copy to command+c.. I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

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Or change copy to command+c.. I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

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This is how my secure crt is set up when im accessing switches. If i use ctrl+c it cancels what im doing and drops back to priv mode and its so frustrating.

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Trobadorreply
lemmy.world

I never realized that was why people used the primaey clipboard on Linux...

But I'll be frank : fuck that. I'd rather disable it entirely and stop having to deal with random text pasting in bad places when I'm using the touchpad

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NotSteve_reply
lemmy.ca

It's less that it's broken and more that it hasn't been implemented yet AFAIK.

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programming.dev

It didn't load completely at first, so i saw something like this and i think it is even better that way:

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I think it works better with the context of the original already present.

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lemmy.world

I've almost gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Shift+C when I want to copy something because of that.

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vpklotarreply
lemmy.world

I do that all the time. Opens up developer tools on firefox if you do it.

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rinzereply
infosec.pub

Yes. And on Microsoft Teams that triggers a chat call.

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Phoenixzreply
lemmy.ca

That solution ish the worst. Ctrl-shift-c does a shitload of different things in different programs, and in browsers it does different things per page.

Ctrl-ins, shift-ins, shift-del for the win bit THEN some programs simply refuse to support that.

I have like 4 different copy paste short cuts because of this and it sucks

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kamenreply
lemmy.world

I'm not saying it's great, but at least in my use I haven't seen it being destructive/disruptive like Ctrl+C is.

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Ctrl-c for copying is a windows thing and it's annoying.

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milliereply
lemmy.film

Do you at least have 4 clipboards to go with them? Because I don't think I could ever go back to a single clipboard.

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Phoenixzreply
lemmy.ca

I use standard Linux dual clipboard (Ctrl ins and just select, middle click) but most extra clipboards I've seen require a lot of extra clicking to get the work done. I want something simple stupid fast.

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I'm running windows for my daily, but I've got Ditto and it works great. I have like 3 clipboards set up, could set up more. It just needs a different hotkey combination. It's really simple.

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sh.itjust.works

Kitty has the feature that if you have text selected it will copy and if not then it will interrupt the command

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lappyreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Yeah I love this feature. I love it so much that I'll also tell everyone who cares to listen how you can use it. Edit your ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf file to include map ctrl+c copy_and_clear_or_interrupt and you are good to go. Only issue I have that it doesn't seem to work in the vscode terminal.

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Any keybinds I have set don't work in vscodium terminal for me too. I mainly use neovim for those things.

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4amreply

Oh what a great way to further entrench a bad habbit! Hang on I need to remedy some refactored code with rm -rf * which Kitty made safe if I’m in a directory with my project files 🙄

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rmi
feddit.de

I bought a Mac to solve this problem lol

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Yeah, I was looking at this wondering why anyone would stop a program just to copy a line, and then I remembered that not everyone uses a Mac.

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I literally just learned about Ctrl+c last week, I've been using terminal casually since I was 10, and always thought it was dumb that when a script was stuck hanging that I had to close the command window and redo my steps. I always thought it was weird that you had to right click to copy something and never thought why that might be the case, I have no excuses.

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Running a long command and didn’t ctrl-D it…

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kbin.social

True strength is bending the machine to appease your habits, not to bend your habits to appease the machine.

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lemmy.world

No. The flesh is weak. The machine is immortal.

Flesh is fallible but ritual honours the machine spirit.

All hail the Omnissiah.

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programming.dev

I don't remember the last time I used ctrl-C. It's always select or "+y.

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I additionally mapped that latter one to F2, because being able to repeatedly copy from VIM and paste into another application without having to move your hand between mouse and keyboard is nice.

Of course, that's VIM. If you meant "vim mode" in shell, then that's a different story.

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sh.itjust.works

press enter and then immediately CTRL+C to stop, then anytime u need u can press UP to go back to where you were

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darcyreply
sh.itjust.works

no i was trying to show my method for avoiding that. i get the joke but i was also trying to be actually helpful

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wolsreply

I can't for the life of me figure out how your proposed method helps in the described scenario.

Maybe I misunderstood it, can you elaborate?

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