Re: emacs24 X primary selection changes

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> But of course there isn't a way to cause that difference with a xterm
> which is where I mostly cut text from.  So while that works with the X
> browsers it doesn't work with a text terminal.  (I know that some text
> terminals add mouse menus that doing that would add a lot of mouse
> clicks and would be tedious to do very many very fast.)

libvte-based terminal emulators (gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal) have
Copy and Paste on Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V and also on Ctrl+Ins
and Shift+Ins by default. Additionally, the former pair of shortcuts
is configurable.