Posted by Toby Inkster on 04/23/06 13:35

Joel Shepherd wrote:

> Maybe my Mac technique is wrong, or maybe the little keyboard on my
> powermac laptop distorts things, but I find the Mac's copy/paste command
> key combinations harder to do than the PC's. It's not the distance: it's
> the hand distortion.

Either way, the X11 copy/paste technique is so much easier:

As soon as you select some text, it is copied to the clipboard (or
"primary selection" in X11 parlance) -- no need to hit *anything* on
your keyboard. Then just middle-click to paste.

(Though most programs do support Ctrl-C/X/V too.)

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