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
  • markstos@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn’t be overwritten.

    Agreed. The post didn’t suggest that.

    Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

    For people already using programmable keyboards global copy/paste shortcuts are a nice perk.

    I spend nearly all my day in a browser or a terminal and as I use a terminal and browser that already support this, the effect is 99% complete.