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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by sandGorgon on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:06PM (#10812995)
But how do you paste? I mean I have all sort of keymaps to enable paste in vim using CUA (shift-insert), but try explaining that to a first time user.

Its the small things that OSX does right.

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by icebraining on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:29PM (#10813123)
Why would you need keymaps? As far as I know, the terminal emulator (urxvt in my case) takes care of pasting the text into Vim. I never had to configure anything to use shift-insert or the wheel button to paste.
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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by sandGorgon on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:18PM (#10813386)
ahh.. I see.

s/vim/gvim/g

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by EdiX on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:19AM (#10817057)
Why would a "first time user" use a program that has a user interface designed in 1976? Why would a "first time user" expect this program to obey interface guidelines that did not exist until 11 years after that user interface was designed?
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