Insert in terminal

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/20/06, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Erika Meier <erika0815 at web.de> wrote:
> > On 20.02.2006 12:27:44 Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > >On 2/20/06, Jacob Baloul <jbaloul at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi Andrew,
> > >> I know this...
> > >> What i am talking about is selected text buffers which are not equal to
> > >> ctrl-c.
> > >> e.g
> > >> if you were to highlight with your mouse or even with shift, lets say in a
> > >> document....you could use middle click on your mouse to paste the
> > >> highlighted text anywere you clicked...same thing with ctrl+shift+insert in
> > >> konsole
> > >
> > >Ah, I see what you mean.  I have no idea about that one and I'm not at
> > >my system to test it out.  I'm CC'ing this to the Xfce list
> > >(xfce at xfce.org) to see if anyone has any ideas, so check there for any
> > >replies.
>
> As for the Terminal, Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V may be reserved by the shell or by
> the application you are working with, so Terminal has to provide
> alternate shortcuts for these actions, which is why it seems non
> standard. It's not an easy problem - Windows doesn't allow copy and
> paste (at least easily) in the DOS window, and OS X solves it by
> adding an extra meta key.

If I may resurrect this thread from the pits of OT purgatory, Jacob
was asking about a keyboard shortcut to paste selected/copied text. 
It looks like Ctrl+Shift+Insert does it. :)

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