Meanwhile I'm sitting here trying to cut out all my mouse interaction. I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse.
Of course that means I also don't have a horse in the "What should middle click do race".
Of course that means I also don't have a horse in the "What should middle click do race".
You can bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that copies the primary to clipboard, then can use ctrl-v. Most apps also bind shift-insert to paste the paste buffer, so I bind shift-delete to this script, then to paste the primary it's just shift-delete then shift-insert. Here's the "script":
xsel -p | xsel -i -b