Answer by belacqua for Why is the middle button mapped to pasting?
It predates Ubuntu and Debian, and the design decision in these OSes has been, as far as I can tell, lack of a contrary design to change historical X-Windows behavior.I realize I'm responding to an old...
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The middle mouse button is mapped to paste the current X-selection, which is normally whatever text is selected. This happens because back in the early days of gui's there was disagreement about how...
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I'm in love with Ubuntu, but I really HATE this feature. I am a programmer and it happened a number of times that I introduced a bug because I inadvertently pasted some code which didn't belong there....
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