Expanding on this, we could make it so that root must use ed(1) to edit files?

The article doesn't suggest using Control+C. It talks about dedicated copy and paste key codes, and you can program your keyboard to map those codes to whatever keys you like. They suggest Fn+C.

Kitty has a setting that makes Ctrl-C copy text, but only if you've selected something. If you haven't it does a regular break. Best of both worlds!

Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn’t be overwritten.

Agreed. The post didn't suggest that.

Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

For people already using programmable keyboards global copy/paste shortcuts are a nice perk.

I spend nearly all my day in a browser or a terminal and as I use a terminal and browser that already support this, the effect is 99% complete.

I feel like you may have misunderstood the article. It's talking about how support is increasing for dedicated Copy keys, and that programmable keyboards make it easy to use dedicated Copy keys. The article does not mention changing the behaviour of Ctrl-C.

Come on, having a 3-key combo for such a common task is a PITA. There's a reason people have been complaining about this for decades.

And I'm pretty sure this key combination predates copy and paste key combinations.

As someone who likes Rust but dislikes the look of COSMIC, are there plans to allow theming?

I have been trying to bind ctrl c to copy in micro and alacrity, I can't find a way.

⌘C and ⌘V work in the native MacOS terminal app as well.

It’s the #1 thing that drives me crazy about Linux.

It seems obvious. You’ve got a Windows/Apple/Super key and a Control key. So you’d think Control would be for control characters and Windows/Apple/Super would be for application things.

I can understand Windows fucking this up, cuz the terminal experience is such a low priority. But Linux?

There’s some projects like Kinto and Toshy which try to fix it, but neither work on NixOS quite yet.

I still use ctrl+ins and shift+ins every now and then. I've hit ctrl+shift+c a few times while in my browser (Vivaldi) which unfortunately is bound to "create note". Ctrl+ins is a great workaround than using an extra neuron when in a terminal to also hit shift when copying.

I might actually do that too, but not for ergonomics. I'm just going nuts with sometimes ctrl-c,. sometimes ctrl-shift-c, sometimes ctrl-ins

That’s a popular terminal feature, but I regularly get tripped up because my terminal has that behavior but my browser does not.

That’s what’s nice about a global solution.