News Survey finds 40% of university students in Japan don’t know the copy-and-paste shortcut keys

[bit_user]

Then the question arise: How many percent of Linux users do know about he middle mouse (or wheel) button "paste any previously highlighted text" ?

This is my most often workaround for the terminal issue. Otherwise just use Shift+Ctrl+C and likewise when paste.

Ugh. The Achilles heal of the Linux desktop experience (or "one of", is probably more accurate) rears its head.

Modern Linux desktop apps have been moving towards a more Windows-like copy/paste model, where merely selecting text in newer apps does not, in fact, copy it to the clipboard. It's app-specific, so you have to know how a given app behaves.

As for middle-click-to-paste, that's the reason my last pointing device (a trackball, actually) wore out - the click/wheel's switch failed. I'm guessing they didn't expect nearly such heavy usage and probably used a cheaper switch than the L/R buttons.

BTW, my terminal emulator of choice is still good, old xterm. It's fast, light-weight, configurable enough, ubiquitous, and has all the original X11 copy/paste semantics. I don't need tabs or any other features of newer terminal emulators. Also, their window decorations tend to consume too much screen realestate for my taste/needs.

 

[christopher.andrew.carr]

This survey is from Japan, which must really skew the results. From my understanding, PCs are very unpopular in that country, making it an outlier compared to the rest of the modernized world.

I seriously doubt awareness is much higher among early 20-somethings in the USA, many of whom also have zero understanding of something as basic as heirachical file structure.

 

[christopher.andrew.carr]

Students born in the 00's that are under 25 can't copy-paste. All they know is charge their phone, twerk, eat mcdonalds, take selfies, and lie.

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