> The universality of copy/paste is overrated. It's literally just adding shift in terminal emulators, no biggie.

> A bigger UX problem (on Linux) imo is the multitude of clipboards, we have x11, vim... Those can be synchronized or not, they manifest different behaviors...

It occurs to me that if there were a universal copy/paste key, then it could be implemented by the OS rather than the applications, such that it uses a single clipboard (or chooses the appropriate one by application type, or even by user choice!) and sends an event (maybe as a signal?) to programs rather than having them scan. Which in turn would make it possible to remove the ability to scan, and thus the ability to have situations like that recent one with StarDict.