[Iterm-discuss] copy & paste behaviour?

[John H. <ha...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am a big fan of iTerm and have been using it since it came out.
But the newer versions have this feature I just don't understand.

If you are trying to select text in a terminal window, you sometimes
get the cursor turning in to the big green + sign  (what does that mean?)
and when it appears you have no choice but to paste whatever is in the
buffer randomly where you clicked. it is very annoying, as all I wanted
to do was copy the selection, the good old fashioned way.

Do you understand what I mean?
Am I using it wrong? What does this thing do, and can I disable it, as I
find it quite annoying when editing code, and the blah - paste of big
unrelated
text in middle of code.

Any ideas?

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John