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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux (mark.stosberg.com)
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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been using ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste for over a decade in my linux terminal by remapping the interrupt to ctrl+x.

It's basic ergonomics and user friendliness.

I do it on all my personal devices and servers.

Nothing bad happened in those ~15 years that I've been doing that. What the fuck are you arguing about?

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I might actually do that too, but not for ergonomics. I'm just going nuts with sometimes ctrl-c,. sometimes ctrl-shift-c, sometimes ctrl-ins

[-] lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Mapping copy and paste to different modifer helped for me. Alt or Mod1 + c or v is easy to reach.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you need any help, ping me and I'll share my setup.

The reason you gave still falls under the concept of ergonomics.

From wikipedia:

Ergonomics, also known as human factors or human factors engineering (HFE), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Primary goals of human factors engineering are to reduce human error, increase productivity and system availability, and enhance safety, health and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction between the human and equipment.

It would be a more ergonomic (and less error prone) system if you modify the shortcuts so that you don't fumble them.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

The point for me is that I will have 30 years of muscle memory to overcome

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

What terminal app do you use, and what do you use to do the remapping?

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

My current setup:

~/.bashrc

  stty intr \^x
  bind -f ~/.inputrc

~/.inputrc

set bind-tty-special-chars off

set colored-stats on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items -1
set page-completions off

"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\C-h": nop
"\C-s":"\C-asudo "

And in Konsole I have remapped copy to ctrl+C and paste to ctrl+V .

I honestly don't remember what each config line is for, cause it has been so long ago. And probably you don't want all of that. Probably best to throw it into an AI and let it explain it line by line.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Thanks! I'm using konsole too, so that's good to know. Do you remap something else to produce the ctrl-c character?

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No, I press ctrl + c on my keyboard and in Konsole settings it is ctrl + c for copy

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