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Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don't: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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[–] Grass 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize they were different. I always thought my copy failed and tried to use one copy with the other paste.

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

3 i use copyq with kde's clipboard and the highlighting thingy.

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

Thought more vim folks would notice this.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Please stop calling it gun/Linux UNLESS you also use

  • Firestone/bus
  • chisel/David
  • vacuum/Danielle Smith

Etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, we live in a world where there are multiple use cases for non-GNU/Linux (i.e. Alpine). Surely the distinction has become useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, Stallman

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