Clipboard selection
Clipboard selection
Posted Apr 17, 2018 19:26 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065)In reply to: Clipboard selection by grawity
Parent article: A look at terminal emulators, part 1
Or if you liked Macs, Motif (probably not), or other non-Windows systems, or just don't like using two modifiers, "alt" makes a nice choice:
Alt <KeyPress>c: select-set(CLIPBOARD)\n\
Alt <KeyPress>v: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)\n\
If you like to use PRIMARY selections (highlight/middle-click), you might find that alt-spacebar is a convenient way to paste:
Alt <KeyPress>space: insert-selection(PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0)\n\
(CUT_BUFFER0 is a fallback there to the old cut buffer system which is useless except it works after the source window has been closed if it supports cut buffers, which xterm does)