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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Use ctrl +shift +c to copy in terminal

[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's all good bro the shafty is on

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Or just left click to highlight & middle click to paste.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just have to be different don't they.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Or just highlight the text and use middle click to paste

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Select text to copy. Middle click to paste.

Don't use Ctrl...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I'm upset this wasn't the original haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I open developer tools every day doing that!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Burn it with fire!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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 🙄

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Ctrl/Shift+Insert gang rise!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I see myself in this meme and I do not like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've changed this on all my terminals and I'm not ashamed of it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I bought a Mac to solve this problem lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Should have used middle mouse button instead

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Average itoddler

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

That sounds a lot like

My rear passenger tire was about 3psi low so I bought a new Grand Cherokee

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

you can literally change the shortcut

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Modern problems require costly solutions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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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