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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 when i was working on improving a widget library some years back one of the things i did was simply make it so you could at minimum click on text and it went into the clipboard... and i made buttons to copy and paste from the clipboard in the text input widgets as well

the text-oriented design of web browsers makes all text selectable, pretty much, and people get used to that
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L | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Pay attention to CLIPBOARD plz
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, i also made it handle the X secondary buffer correctly too

almost nobody seems to know that it exists

X-Window-System by default you select, it goes into a buffer, i think technically it's the primary

use menu or Ctrl-C and it copies to the secondary buffer

press the middle mouse button and it pastes the PRIMARY buffer at the mouse location

has been a fixture of X since the late 80s but windows retarded menus and mac retarded menus and the QWERTY layout make it easy to do one handed on the left side but i've been a dvorak since 2004 and those zxcv keys are all over the place mostly on the right side of the keyboard