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[LightHugger]

Sharing middle click between paste functionality and it's other popular functions makes it error prone and impractical at least for me. Copy paste is faster in a vacuum but the overall experience is worse. I think using thumb mouse buttons is more practical, and auto copy is better just avoided altogether.

Autoscroll is great by the way.

[lvass → LightHugger]

Maybe that's why the "Un*x dogmatists" avoid adding functionality to mouse buttons. Middle click already has a great X11/Wayland feature and should stay that way.

[kevin_thibedeau → lvass]

Wayland tried to kill middle click paste.

[boogies → kevin_thibedeau]

What do you mean?

[yjftsjthsd-h → LightHugger]

> and auto copy is better just avoided altogether.

Why? It's not costing anything, action-wise

[cnity → yjftsjthsd-h]

I may have something on my clipboard already. I "compulsively" highlight things as a reading aid and it's frustrating when I lose trust in my clipboard because it always contains fragments of text I don't care about.

[taeric → cnity]

But, the selection buffer is not the same as the clipboard. Is it?

That is, even in the paradigm of middle click to paste the last selection, you still have a clipboard, don't you?

[yjftsjthsd-h → cnity]

I'm somewhat sympathetic, but I'm not sure that "I want to be able to give the machine input without it reacting" is a great objection to doing something with that input.