How kate’s setting on not immediately copy to SELECTION (A.K.A PRIMARY) if, only if, text is being selected by use of keyboard, not by mouse click and hold
Thanks before
you want text selection by mouse to be added to the copy buffer for quick paste using middle click.
but NOT to be added when text selection by keyboard?
that’s the whole point of that copy buffer, it should work by either method… either in a terminal by keyboard or in an editor by mouse.
i doubt there is any way to separate them.
with the mouse or keyboard
Damn! I’ve been using linux for more than 20 years and never noticed that selecting text with keyboard will also copy. I always thought of it as the “mouse clipboard”.
This explains some weird behaviour I experienced…
As for not doing it in kate: Part of why I never noticed is probably that this does not happen in vim mode. So you could use that - it’s quite a paradigm shift in editing though.