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Windows-like middle-mouse button behaviour?
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...but then you're losing quick copy and paste.
Select text then middle click on the window you want to paste it. No keys. Select and a single click.
Of course, if you have more than three mouse buttons you can do both.
Eh?
I don't paste things as often as I scroll. Plus, my brain associates copying and pasting with the keyboard commands, from 20+ years of doing -- That.
Edit-to-answer-your-edit: My mouse has 7 buttons, I'm golden.
Interesting. I somehow rewired my brain when I switched to Linux and now I'm constantly annoyed when middle click doesn't paste.
It's been a wonderful X-Windows feature on UNIX systems for ages, which Linux inherited. Select and middle mouse button paste is so ingrained in me, I can't function without it.
After moving from windows to Linux I found myself accidentally press ing middle click and pasting when scrolling a lot. And I was scrolling a lot because I didn't have the middle-click-drag scroll feature. I ended up disabling middle click paste.
I've used Linux exclusively for 10+ years and dualbooted long before that, and I just now learned about that flow.
I don't use the quick copy and paste on my Thinkpad because it's so easy to accidentally trigger. I use it more often on my desktop, though.