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[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (25 children)

Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn't be overwritten. If it is, you'd have to create a totally separate key binding to kill a process. Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

[–] Overspark 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Kitty has a setting that makes Ctrl-C copy text, but only if you've selected something. If you haven't it does a regular break. Best of both worlds!

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another KiTTY user! Can you share that setting?

[–] Overspark 3 points 2 months ago

Had to look it up for you. I use (in kitty.conf):

map ctrl+c copy_and_clear_or_interrupt
map ctrl+v paste_from_clipboard

Obviously you only need the first one for the copy bit but having paste as well is nice.

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