On most distros/de(or whatever determines this behaviour, idk) on linux you can just select and then middle mouse click. Its so convenient
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I seriously sometimes don't have the "COPY" part execute sometimes ... I've tried to do only one copy a few times and I'm like "wait, why didn't it copy"?
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Ctrl + X a function
Select some loose whitespace, backspace
Ctrl + V: Gives back the whitespace and that’s all
What the everloving fk, IDE
Pooh in monocle and tophat: yy & p
cp -a ~/file1 ~/file2
yp
Middle Click Paste Linux Master Race!
On the commandline:
CTRL+SHIFT+C / V
You can never be too sure.
Ctrl + Shift + c
Ctrl + v
I use Arch, btw