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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

does this suggest that copy/paste from the terminal is broken by design and we need find a better way?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I like your thinking. Give me Firefox with a TUI and POSIX shell i/o redirection support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vim has a better way, it's called :set clipboard=unnamedplus (alternatively, one can bind anything else to copy/paste to/from system cliboards). Not sure why would one use a mouse for this, honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think if you want to copy a specific selection to a mouse-based, different program then it makes sense to use the mouse for precision selection.