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Sharing middle click between paste functionality and it's other popular functions makes it error prone and impractical at least for me. Copy paste is faster in a vacuum but the overall experience is worse. I think using thumb mouse buttons is more practical, and auto copy is better just avoided altogether.

Autoscroll is great by the way.

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Maybe that's why the "Un*x dogmatists" avoid adding functionality to mouse buttons. Middle click already has a great X11/Wayland feature and should stay that way.

Wayland tried to kill middle click paste.

What do you mean?

> and auto copy is better just avoided altogether.

Why? It's not costing anything, action-wise

I may have something on my clipboard already. I "compulsively" highlight things as a reading aid and it's frustrating when I lose trust in my clipboard because it always contains fragments of text I don't care about.

But, the selection buffer is not the same as the clipboard. Is it?

That is, even in the paradigm of middle click to paste the last selection, you still have a clipboard, don't you?

I'm somewhat sympathetic, but I'm not sure that "I want to be able to give the machine input without it reacting" is a great objection to doing something with that input.

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