> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Chris Roberts <cpr420@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I would argue that terminal should have the ability to be exempt > > from > > the normal rules because it is a special case. It provides a > > completely unique way of interfacing with the system that is totally > > different from the gui. > > > > While this is by and large a good point, I would have to argue that > copy/paste should be the one exception to the exception. Being > text-based, the one and only action I'm likely to do with a terminal > that interacts with the rest of the GUI is copying text out of it or > pasting text in. As such it frustrates me enormously on just about > every OS/desktop environment I've used that I have to remember a > different shortcut for that for the terminal since it's the only case > where I *do* want it to be consistent with the rest of the system. +1 Regards, Jorge/aka Koki