Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 11:54 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
So, basically, there are two clipboards in X. If you select text with
the mouse, you can paste it with the middle button. If you use the
"copy" menu item (or ctrl+c), you can paste it with the "paste" menu
item (or ctrl+v). As long as you don't try to mix the two, like
expecting "paste" to insert something that you selected with the mouse,
you should be fine.
That's a little confusing. Almost everywhere the keyboard versions
of copy/paste work there is also a right-mouse menu that works
the same way as the keyboard
That's what I said.
, so the distinction isn't between using
the mouse and the keyboard
That's not what I said.
Since many applications need
the keystrokes for something else, you'll have a lot fewer surprises
if you use the right-mouse method most places.
No, "many" applications don't use Ctrl+c/v or Ctrl/Shift+Ins for
something other than copy and paste. For the most part, only terminal
applications do that.
