Copy and paste in Terminal

[JD]

  On 10/14/2010 07:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>>> I have been copying and pasting as I described above
>>> ever since the first X release on BSD.
>>> No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
>>> Just hightlight with left button and paste with middle
>>> button. No fuss and no mess :) :)
>> And you are missing the point.  There are two separate processes.  One
>> of them copy/pastes to the system wide copy/paste "buffer", is the same
>> as EDIT/copy and EDIT/paste in most menus, and can be bound to
>> keystrokes or either c-c and c-v or similar.  The other is done by just
>> highlighting text with the mouse.  You are describing the 2nd process.
>> I was showing you that the 2 processes are separate and different.  The
>> OP was claiming that the 2nd process no longer worked for him (but I'm
>> unsure on what version of Fedora he is running), but that using the
>> copy/paste commands (not mouse clicks) worked for him, but he wanted the
>> mouse stiff to work for him again....
> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text
> they seem exactly the same.
There seems to be 2 buffers.
I never bother with the ctrl-shift-[cv]
I have never used it because it's so much easier
to use the mouse.
This is how I tested it:
in one window, I highlighted text, and Edit->copy
In another window, I only highlighted.
in a third window, Edit->paste yields contents from first window,
and click middle button yields contents from seconds window.
ctrl-shift-v yields same contents as Edit-paste.