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I am working with a junior developer who will use the mouse to click on text, click copy, click the new area, and click paste. I don't have the courage to tell him that he can Control/Cmd-C and Control/Cmd-V

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Just let him know.

And you may have to show him during pair programming. Telling someone 10 improvements rarely changes their workflow.

Letting them see/discover the change will drive them to try

In Linux, just select and middle-click.

This blew my mind when I first saw somebody do it. I was a bright-eyed young engineer in shorts visiting a customer site, and he had a PhD, dress slacks, a white button-down shirt, and a tie. I assumed had a jacket to match the slacks hanging in his office. I said, "Whoa, what terminal emulator is that? I need to check it out." It was xterm.

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