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There are many over reactions in this thread and none of them mentioned they actually use the paste feature. What is the big deal? I like it. I don't know any one that uses the middle button for pasting. In fact the middle is more likely to be a scroll wheel and so clicking on that never happens. Overloading that something is okay with me.

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>In fact the middle is more likely to be a scroll wheel and so clicking on that never happens. //

Almost every tab I close is by clicking on my scroll wheel.

Some inferior scroll wheels it seems don't click but I've bought quite cheap mouses and they all seem to have scroll-click.

I use it all the time, even with a scroll-wheel; far more than I use ctrl-C/V.

Everyone suggesting to use ctrl-c/v is not often using a terminal i guess ;)

So now in the future i have to select test in a terminal with the mouse, right click, click copy and then hit ctrl-v or right click again, whereas now i just select text and hit the middle mouse?!

Please, leave the middle-mouse-paste an option or atleast make it a gnome-extension :(

you can use Ctrl+C outside the terminal and then Ctrl+Shift+V to paste into it (similarly Ctrl+Shift+C for copying from terminal)

btw, I also use clicking the scroll-wheel to paste all the time

I didn't even know ctrl+shift works BUT also i like to keep my fingers in tact ( = pressing ctrl+shift+c feels like a complicated yoga-practice)

well, it depends on what terminal emulator you use but both guake and terminator support ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+v. i agree though that using the middle mouse-button is much easier

The nice thing with X is that you can use both! CRTL-C/V and the middle mouse button use different clipboards. I use both at the same time, it' quite handy when you need to copy/paste from different sources in the same app.

Using the middle button for pasting what's highlighted is one of the few things on X11 that's consistent across configurations and over the past 25-ish years.

It's one of those things that you fall in love with after having heard about it way too late.

At my last workplace (linux only environment), one day, somebody showed it to a second person while a bunch of other people were in the room. Two days later, everybody was using it as if they couldn't live without it. Turns out that before nobody knew the feature existed.

Geez, I use it all the time. I use it so much it's like breathing, I don't even think about it. In fact it's such a part of my way of working that I didn't realize that's what the article was talking about.

Double left-click and it's immediately in the buffer, because why else would you double click text? Middle click and you're done. Easy peasy, and I would hoist the black flag and start slitting throats if it disappeared.

Fortunately for me I use LXDE, where they seem to have resisted making a career out of churn. I really don't care what's in front of me except for what I'm working on, and I don't want to be aware of my DE. To me it's like adding features to a coffee cup. Once you're drinking coffee why would you care at all, as long as the handle still worked.

That's the problem. The gnome guys would have removed the handle.

> don't know any one that uses the middle button for pasting.

Well now you know several people who do. I use it all the time, and hate using windows which doesn't have the feature.

You can't use keyboard shortcuts in terminals, so that's not a replacement of middle click.

Start using it - you'll quickly find it indispensable.

> none of them mentioned they actually use the paste feature

Everyone with a terminal uses the feature. I've been using it every day for the past 17 years.

It's somewhat inconsistent and unreliable between applications, but it's a huge timesaver.

removing a feature for the sake of removing a feature, if you don't use it doesn't mean noone else uses it.

I use it all the time. Literally.

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