copy and paste doesn't work on unix : reminder

I seem to have already written this article: <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/11/copy-and-paste-keeps-getting-worse.html>.

Copy and paste failures happen all the time, but I've just had another case.  I was trying to copy a bit of text out of a terminal emulator running a shell and into a web editor.  I selected the text.  Middle clicked in blogger's editor in web page in chromium.  It pasted in a picture that was previously in the clipboard / in the other clipboard.  Since it's just a shell running in a terminal, there was no other way to ask for it to copy.  I tried ctrl-v in the browser editor: same result.  So I tried middle-clicking in emacs's scratch buffer.  That pasted in the right text.  Then selected the text and did ctrl-w, which is an emacs thing.  Now I can ctrl-v in the browser editor, and the right text is pasted.  Conclusion: the browser or blogger editor is probably handling middle-click itself, and pasting from the "other" clipboard.

Maybe no one is even using X or desktop Unix any more.  People who do use it will tend to come across these copy-and-paste issues a lot.  It doesn't have to be this way.

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