I’ve read this answer on superuser.com by grawity and part of the text “X Selections, Cut Buffers, and Kill Rings.” by Jamie Zawinski.
I understand there’s the primary register: use the mouse to select text, then use the middle mouse button to paste it. And on the other hand, there’s the clipboard (ctrl-c / ctrl-v).
But how do I access the primary register when I don’t have a mouse with that button, or when I don’t have a mouse at all (since I can also feed text to the register by selecting it with the keyboard)? Is there a keyboard shortcut to access it instead of using the mouse?
I saw this question, but it specifically asks about rxvt
, whereas the primary register is a feature of X (I believe).
I couldn’t find an answer to that in the mentioned texts. shift-ins seems to work the same way as ctrl-v, so this isn’t what I‘m looking for.