https://blog.nelhage.com/2008/09/autocutsel/

As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been annoying. When I copy something, be it by Gnome C-c, emacs C-w, or selecting it in an xterm, I then want to be able to paste it again, no matter what mechanism I use.

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