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[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn't be overwritten. If it is, you'd have to create a totally separate key binding to kill a process. Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The article doesn't suggest using Control+C. It talks about dedicated copy and paste key codes, and you can program your keyboard to map those codes to whatever keys you like. They suggest Fn+C.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit can you guys read the article please? It's an existing standard and a dedicated keycode

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

[–] elmicha@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We could use Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert like in the last three decades, but some of these keyboards apparently forgot about the Insert key.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah but shift insert is annoying as hell since the keys are so far apart

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I confirmed that these already supported a number of terminals plus QT and GTK. They could also be mapped to be more ergonomic with a programmable keyboard:

  • Control+Insert: Copy
  • Shift+Delete: Cut
  • Shift+Insert: Paste
[–] crater2150@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But Shift+insert currently pastes the primary selection, not the copy-paste clipboard. So it doesn't do the same as Ctrl+V.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It depends. In Firefox, Chrome and LibreOffice, Shift-Insert pastes the clipboard, not the selection. Viva Linux!

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

what about shift+insert amd ctrl+insert thats literally already there

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because lots of people don't have an insert key?

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, the article proposes to use dedicated copy and paste keys. If you don't have an insert key, you probably don't have those either.

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