alt Hacker NewsWork had me using the Windows Terminal for the first time ever after a life of developing on Linux. I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!)
For those not knowing, Windows Terminal uses Ctrl+C to abort the current process (as we'd expect) when nothing is selected, but copies when there is a selection. Similarly, Ctrl+V just pastes. So convenient!
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Not sure if this was available from the beginning, but Ghostty has the ability to do exactly that with what they call "performable" keybindings
In Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button.
This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
I really wish PC manufacturers didn't kill Insert button. It worked just fine for decades with Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins, and in every terminal I've tried. But now the button is missing more and more often (thanks HP, I appreciate useless call and share buttons in its place, which don't work anywhere), and fixes need to be invented for a solved problem.
It doesn't look so convenient to me. If Ctrl+v is bound to paste, how do you insert a verbatim character in the shell? How do you start a block visual selection in Vim? How do you scroll down in emacs?
> So convenient!
Running in tmux, marking anything on my terminal immediately puts it into the tmux buffer, without me having to click anything on the keyboard. Pressing middle-mouse pastes it.
THAT is convenience.
windows terminal is awesome and i wish it shipped with windows by default instead of having to go to the store and install it. everyone who uses it has only good things to say, and it is updated regularly by Microsoft.
This is genious. It is one of the most annoying things remaining in the Linux desktop and I often press Shift-Ctrl-C in the browser by mistake, opening up the dev tools in the process, while intending to copy.
Are there any legitimate reasons to send Ctrl-C except to abort, that this could interfer with?
I have to warning everyone: Windows terminal with true color , possibly with tmux, is very slow. There is a half second delay from key press to response. I am in a vdi. Your miles varies.
FWIW, in zsh, and probably other terminals, you can bind ctrl+v to be paste. Many terminal emulators also allow you to bind ctrl+v to paste, although that may interfere with applications that use ctrl-v for something else.
Kitty has a copy_or_interrupt action that behaves like you describe. Although, I think it would interfere with apps where ctrl-c is handled specially.
Edit: kitty also has a copy_or_noop action that passes through the ctrl+c if there is no selection.
That sounds like an awesome concept. However, I'm restarting Linux usage after 10 years on Mac, and I am surprised on how much less annoying the Shift-ctrl-v is compared to what I expected.
Yori is also a very capable replacement.
> I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!)
You, uh, never tried middle clicking?
Mac terminals yield a similar benefit, with the systemwide copy/paste Cmd+C/V not overlapping with Ctrl+C/V.
Being used to that, Linux terminals become rather annoying. Yes there's other ways under Linux, but they don't have 25+ years of muscle memory associated with them, and so when the key shortcuts don't work as expected it's like nails on a chalkboard.