Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 days agoYou don't need the mouselemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1643arrow-down122
arrow-up1621arrow-down1imageYou don't need the mouselemmy.blahaj.zoneSoluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareelectricprism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agodoes this suggest that copy/paste from the terminal is broken by design and we need find a better way?
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoI like your thinking. Give me Firefox with a TUI and POSIX shell i/o redirection support.
minus-squarefl42v@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoVim 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
minus-squaresmiletolerantly@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoI 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.
does this suggest that copy/paste from the terminal is broken by design and we need find a better way?
I like your thinking. Give me Firefox with a TUI and POSIX shell i/o redirection support.
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, honestlyI 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.