Copy and paste in Terminal

[JD]

  On 10/15/2010 12:59 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What Alex can do in order to force the highlighted word or text
>> to go into the buffer that can be pasted with ctrl-shivf-v,
>> is to
>> 1. highlight the text or anything for that matter (such as a web page)
>> 2. right click in the same area
>> 3. select copy
>> This will put the copied buffer into the same buffer that ctr-shift-v
>> will paste in any window.
> Yes, this is exactly what I've been doing, and I set the key combo to
> be shift-insert, instead of the awkward ctrl-shift-v. It's just that
> right-click->Copy step that makes it feel like Windows and I'd like to
> eliminate.
>
> Thanks again, everyone. I'll check out the clipboard managers in the
> next few days when I have some time.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
Hey Alex,
since you can map shift-insert to paste,
how about mapping another shorter key
sequence to Edit->Copy (i.e. ctr-shift-c ) ?
You could map shift-F12 to Edit->Copy.