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Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually.

I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me.

Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.

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[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are you talking about selecting multiple unconnected sections of text, so that they are highlighted at the same time? I think that's a Firefox feature.

Or are you talking about selecting something and then something else, so that only the last thing is highlighted, and finding both selections listed as separate items in KDE's clipboard manager?

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Talking about the first. Seems to work in Libreoffice as well, but not Kate and Konsole. So it's definitely app specific, not a KDE thing.

[-] boredsquirrel 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes and I think I opened a wishlist bug about that for Okular

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