• errerEnglish
      1092·
      2 years ago

      Use ctrl +shift +c to copy in terminal

      Ah yes the classic dangerous command made safe by a modifier key. Put the gun to your head and pull the trigger, just make sure you’re holding down the shift key and it’s all good!

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      16·
      2 years ago

      Ctrl+insert to copy and shift+insert also works! It was the DOS way of doing it.

    • TheWoozy
      131·
      2 years ago

      Or just left click to highlight & middle click to paste.

      • kaba0@programming.dev
        3·
        2 years ago

        Or change copy to command+c… I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

      • kaba0@programming.dev
        1·
        2 years ago

        Or change copy to command+c… I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink
      3·
      2 years ago

      This is how my secure crt is set up when im accessing switches. If i use ctrl+c it cancels what im doing and drops back to priv mode and its so frustrating.

    • SuperIceEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Or just highlight the text and use middle click to paste

  • kamen
    33·
    2 years ago

    I’ve almost gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Shift+C when I want to copy something because of that.

    • vpklotar
      20·
      2 years ago

      I do that all the time. Opens up developer tools on firefox if you do it.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 years ago

      That solution ish the worst. Ctrl-shift-c does a shitload of different things in different programs, and in browsers it does different things per page.

      Ctrl-ins, shift-ins, shift-del for the win bit THEN some programs simply refuse to support that.

      I have like 4 different copy paste short cuts because of this and it sucks

      • kamen
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m not saying it’s great, but at least in my use I haven’t seen it being destructive/disruptive like Ctrl+C is.

      • millie@lemmy.filmEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Do you at least have 4 clipboards to go with them? Because I don’t think I could ever go back to a single clipboard.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
          1·
          2 years ago

          I use standard Linux dual clipboard (Ctrl ins and just select, middle click) but most extra clipboards I’ve seen require a lot of extra clicking to get the work done. I want something simple stupid fast.

          • millie@lemmy.filmEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m running windows for my daily, but I’ve got Ditto and it works great. I have like 3 clipboards set up, could set up more. It just needs a different hotkey combination. It’s really simple.

  • spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Kitty has the feature that if you have text selected it will copy and if not then it will interrupt the command

    • lappy@lemmy.sdf.org
      13·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I love this feature. I love it so much that I’ll also tell everyone who cares to listen how you can use it. Edit your ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf file to include map ctrl+c copy_and_clear_or_interrupt and you are good to go. Only issue I have that it doesn’t seem to work in the vscode terminal.

      • spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Any keybinds I have set don’t work in vscodium terminal for me too. I mainly use neovim for those things.

    • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
      115·
      2 years ago

      Oh what a great way to further entrench a bad habbit! Hang on I need to remedy some refactored code with rm -rf * which Kitty made safe if I’m in a directory with my project files 🙄

    • jungle
      83·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I was looking at this wondering why anyone would stop a program just to copy a line, and then I remembered that not everyone uses a Mac.

  • yokonzo
    7·
    2 years ago

    I literally just learned about Ctrl+c last week, I’ve been using terminal casually since I was 10, and always thought it was dumb that when a script was stuck hanging that I had to close the command window and redo my steps. I always thought it was weird that you had to right click to copy something and never thought why that might be the case, I have no excuses.

    • bellsDoSing@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      I additionally mapped that latter one to F2, because being able to repeatedly copy from VIM and paste into another application without having to move your hand between mouse and keyboard is nice.

      Of course, that’s VIM. If you meant “vim mode” in shell, then that’s a different story.

  • darcy@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    2 years ago

    press enter and then immediately CTRL+C to stop, then anytime u need u can press UP to go back to where you were

      • darcy@sh.itjust.works
        22·
        2 years ago

        no i was trying to show my method for avoiding that. i get the joke but i was also trying to be actually helpful

        • wols@lemm.ee
          11·
          2 years ago

          I can’t for the life of me figure out how your proposed method helps in the described scenario.

          Maybe I misunderstood it, can you elaborate?

        • El Barto
          7·
          2 years ago

          With your method, as soon as you hit control+C, the program is terminated.

          Or what are you doing to avoid the program being terminated?