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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by josteink on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:01AM (#13218658)
> I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else

Please elaborate. I mean... Universal copy paste has just been working the last 20 years... Unless I'm missing something basic?

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by somecallitblues on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:43AM (#13218794)
I remember that ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work across applications. I think Terminal was one of them. Couldn't copy and paste into it. Out of the box anyway.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by dagw on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:50AM (#13218832)
Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this.

Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by vinw on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:27AM (#13219549)
shift-insert pastes anywhere, including into the terminal.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by viraptor on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:13AM (#13218898)
Either that or select - right click - copy/paste. It all works, but the shortcuts don't align. Ctrl-c is sigint, ctrl+v varies, but in vim it escapes special key press.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by crottypeter on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:56AM (#13219062)
Yes.

I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by philsnow on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:31AM (#13219576)
> Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

I use hammerspoon to paper over a lot of the annoying parts of macos (after using linux on desktop+laptop for over a decade). Here's a minimal excerpt from my config to get a more-reasonable "maximize" behavior: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d2...

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by ashark on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:19AM (#13221172)
Install Spectacle. [cmd]+[alt]+[f] for actual maximize (NOT fullscreen). Replace the f with left arrow and you get half pane left, same with right, or up... you get the idea.

Switch alt for ctrl with the same commands to send to the top quarters of the screen, add a shift to that to send it to the bottom quarters.

I don't move windows with the mouse on OSX/MacOS anymore.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by j7ake on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:39AM (#13218999)
This is why I prefer OSX,the command + V works in terminal because command + V is not mapped to anything in the terminal.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by Gracana on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:24AM (#13221232)
I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work everywhere. It messes me up when I go to a Windows machine and find that ctrl-w closes my window when I just wanted to delete a word.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by abrowne on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:49AM (#13219687)
In MATE Terminal, and I think GNOME Terminal, you can chance the keybindings to remove the shift — and if you do this, you can send ^C with shift-control-c.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:10AM (#13221072)
That's a limitation (or rather idiosyncratic behavior) of Terminal not Ubuntu. Copy/paste works everywhere else.
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