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> KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows.

Just for completeness & correctness: that's an X11 feature, not related to KDE, and predates KDE by several years. I can't easily find the history of it, but this Keith Packard paper[0] on it is dated 1990 so it's necessarily older than that…

[0] http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps

(pg. 5, "4.1. Selection names" - PRIMARY, SECONDARY, CLIPBOARD. I don't think SECONDARY is used much these days.)




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