https://whynothugo.nl/tags/history/Recent content in History on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 20 Nov 2023 14:12:11 +0800https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2022/11/04/copying-with-super-c/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2022/11/04/copying-with-super-c/Historically, Ctrl+c has been used to interrupt a process on terminals. This applies on Linux, but also applied to BSDs and Unixes before it. This is still true, even today, on pretty much any terminal emulator. When mice became a thing, one could simply select text and then click mouse2 to paste it. mouse2 was the right mouse button back when mice had two buttons, and became the middle mouse button now that mice typically have three buttons (or three-finger tap on touchpads).