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		toxik on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windo... That’s not true, iTerm2 doesn’t overwrite your clipboard. It, like it’s forebears, uses a separate selection buffer. The only way to paste from it is middle mouse button as far as I know.

matthewmacleod on March 12, 2021 [–]

It 100% does. The "Copy to pasteboard on selection" option causes selected text to overwrite whatever's on the clipboard, and I just checked.

It's possible that this isn't enabled by default, but I'm virtually certain it is because it catches me out every time.

toxik on March 13, 2021 | [–]

Aha well then, we have differing experiences

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