Re: Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

David Cary Hart <Fedora <at> TQMcube.com> writes:

Maybe the problem is in KDE. Sometimes ctrl-c works; sometimes it
does not. Sometimes highlight->right-click-≥copy works.

But the biggest problem is with paste. ctrl-v never works.
Shift-insert works but I never know what it will paste. Similarly,
the middle button of my mouse works but I never know what I will get
and it is different from the results of shift-insert.

So in summary after copy or cut, I am never sure whether shift-insert
or the mouse-middle-button will paste the just cut text. Frequently,
neither works properly.

Anyone else? Any suggestions? This is one of those minor annoyances
that is extremely frustrating at times.


Keep in my mind that there are two different mechanisms. The selection is the
currently highlighted text and it is pasted by the middle-mouse button. It is
lost when something else is selected or the highlighting is lost.

The clipboard is explicitly copied or cut from the selection. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X,
and Ctrl-V are supposed to be the standard keyboard shortcuts for those. The
older shortcuts, Shift-Ins, Ctrl-Ins also work in many apps. Gnome Terminal,
for example, is different so it doesn't interfere with normal terminal
keyboards; it uses Shift-Ctrl-C, etc.

My impression is that KDE was one of the last systems to change to the standard
clipboard scheme and shortcuts. There are still a few applications which do
things differently; Emacs is the most annoying one to me.

- Ian


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