I used to be irritated by middle-click paste as well. That stopped when I had someone explain it to me as follows:
> It’s just another clipboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the keyboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the mouse.
Perhaps that’s common knowledge, but that understanding made me instantly fall in love with middle-click paste.
In most terminal emulators, Ctrl-C deviates from normal behavior in favor of sending SIGINT. However, some terminal emulators (e.g. the one in elementary OS) makes the simple decision that if text is highlighted, copy it. Otherwise, send SIGINT. That closes all loose ends for me.
> It’s just another clipboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the keyboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the mouse.
Perhaps that’s common knowledge, but that understanding made me instantly fall in love with middle-click paste.
In most terminal emulators, Ctrl-C deviates from normal behavior in favor of sending SIGINT. However, some terminal emulators (e.g. the one in elementary OS) makes the simple decision that if text is highlighted, copy it. Otherwise, send SIGINT. That closes all loose ends for me.