A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.

which tends to overwrite the paste buffer

Isn’t it a different buffer?

At least on my KDE system I can use Ctrl-C and select-middle-mouse in parallel without them overwriting each other.

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It’s different from the Ctrl-C buffer, but selecting overwrites the middle-mouse paste buffer, so you have to delete text you want to replace before going to the place you’re copying it from.

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