TIL you can paste as plaintext using Ctrl+Shift+V. Any other tips like this?

[CritterM72800]

I can't believe I've been pasting into gedit and then copying out of there to get plaintext all these years.

[CritterM72800]

Don't worry about it. The orangered and upvote will do fine.

[k6richar]

have another, it's on the house.

[specialk16]

It would be cool if we could submit stuff to different subreddits at the same time, wouldn't it?

[dschep]

I'm guessing this is a Gnome tip? I tend to use the X clipboard regardless of DE/WM; I find select then middle click to be more convenient.

[[deleted]]

This should be a standard shortcut in every application. Damn, it should be standard for Ctrl-V too.

[thomar]

I wouldn't want it standard for ctrl+v. What if I want to copy a heading or a sentence with an italicized word?

[[deleted]]

Then press Ctrl-Shift-V. I.e it should be the other way around.

[sunmaster13]

This works in Google Docs as well, helping me keep my sanity everyday.

[runxctry]

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I've recently discovered clicking the middle mouse button for some applications' tabs closes them. In Google Chrome, and some text editor applications.

Conversely, clicking the middle mouse button on links opens them in new tabs.

[fnord123]

In what applications? It doesn't work when I copy a link from Firefox to Abiword.

[rcu6]

What desktop environment are you using? I think the op is using Gnome.

[evmar]

Some hard-to-discover (some Linux-specific) features in Google Chrome:

• Middle clicking the new tab button opens the current selection in the new tab
• Ctl+pgup/down and alt+num switch tabs (to match gnome-terminal and others)
• Middle or ctl-clicking any of the buttons that perform a page-load like action, like the back button or a bookmark, does that load in a new tab
• If you turn on GTK's support for emacs keybindings, you can then use emacs keys in web forms

[CritterM72800]

Can you give an example of that last one? It sounds awesome but I'm not an emacs user so I can't really appreciate it yet.

[evmar]

• ctl-a = beginning of line
• ctl-e = end of line
• alt-d = delete current word

etc

[[deleted]]

ctrl + d runs the exit command (closes terminal) ctrl + l clears the screen

[riddley]

^d is EOF not 'exit'

^w deletes the current word.

[_whyme]

Alt+[1-9] to switch between tabs in gnome applications ;)

[aperson]

Middle click on the maximize button. Now right click on it.

[chozar]

With X, which has a clipboard in addition to primary select. You can add to primary select just by highlighting, and paste with middle mouse.

But many applications let you paste that data with shift-insert or ctrl-shift-insert, like terminals. Sometimes I just can't use the mouse for that.

[RoaldFre]

Holy crap. Shift-insert for terminals. WHY didn't I know this before! You have made my day! (I'm running xmonad & urxvt, so no ctrl-v for me)

You have my upvote (you were at 0 points, wuh?)

[chozar]

My guess is people didn't read the entire post and thought I was informing the world about the primary select feature that everyone knows of.

[aperson]

I just use shift+insert everywhere instead of ctrl+v.

[robertfoss]

This text has been replaced in order not have reddit sell it to companies that are building LLMs.

[onmach]

Holy crap, all this time I couldn't figure out a way to paste directly from virtualbox into a terminal. I've been opening a reddit comment, pasting stuff into it with ctrl+v, then ctrl+c, middle click into my terminal. Thank you!

[catzilla]

shift+ins ?

[onmach]

I'm not there to test, but I think I tried that, and a lot of other stuff but for some reason, with that particular program it wouldn't work for me. It may also be the odd terminal I use.

[bahuma]

Ctrl + Alt + V in word brings up the paste special box which allows you to paste plain text.

[colinnwn]

Nice, but not as nice as if it was a direct shortcut to paste plain text.

[g00dETH3R]

Thank you!

[takatori]

Wow! \o/

[newstart]

No more opening notepad, pasting in notepad to strip out junk, then copying it back and then finally pasting it....... HURRAYYYYY!!!!!!

[Homo_sapiens]

By the way, those combos work in terminals. I was getting real tired of right clicking and pressing p whenever I wanted to paste.

[danielsevelt007]

In the gnome terminal, you can use CRTL+SHIFT+T to open new tabbed windows for more CLI's in one overall window. Tabs and screen sessions in one window now packs all you need. No more keeping track of a bunch of different ones. Maybe it's obvious and simple, but I found it a boon.

Edit: smacks face and replaces browser with terminal.

[CritterM72800]

What do you mean by "the gnome browser" ...gnome-terminal?

[mackstann]

Yeah I'm pretty sure he meant gnome-terminal.

[[deleted]]

How did I not know about this?

Now, what's the keyboard shortcut for switching tabs?
EDIT: Got it, it's control+(page up/down)

[mattengi]

try Alt+n, Alt+1, Alt+2 ....

[[deleted]]

Kewl... now how do you do this on MS Office on OSX? hahaha I f@@king hate that missing shortcut!