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Where is that the case? Middle click copies the selection and right click pastes on every terminal emulator I use.

Middle click to paste the most recently selected text is how the PRIMARY selection works in X Window [0], it's not specific to terminals.

What terminals have middle-click-to-copy, right-click-to-paste? Sounds alien to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection#Clipboard

> What terminals have middle-click-to-copy, right-click-to-paste?

CMD on Windows, default PuTTy settings, WSL as well. I honestly haven't used GUIs on native Linux environments much, and when I have I must have changed the terminal emulator settings.

Ah, so Windows. Makes sense that it would have something completely different from everything else.

I don't know the details for I am but a simple engineer. But using a government RHEL system a couple years ago, middle clock universally pasted whatever I had highlighted with the cursor. Didn't matter what program I was copying into or out of.

I mostly used this to copy paste from a terminal into a COTS GUI tool, or from that tool into the OpenOffice (or maybe LibreOffice, I don't recall) spreadsheet program whatever that's called.

Honestly it was incredibly useful and probably saved me collective hours over the few years I worked there

Obviously this thread is about terminals, but the functionality does exist in some places

All terminals are judged by how far they stray from xterm's light.

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