Copy & paste in a terminal without SHIFT
You can change your settings in Gnome Terminal keyboard settings to make
- Ctrl+C = Copy
- Ctrl+V = Paste
Menu > Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts...
Then you can still press Shift to do whatever that key combination would usually do in a terminal, e.g.
- Ctrl+Shift+C = Interrupt
- Ctrl+Shift+V = Literal Next Character
Alternatively, you could get into the habit of using
- Ctrl+Ins = Copy
- Shift+Del = Cut
- Shift+Ins = Paste
in all applications, to avoid ever accidentally pressing Ctrl+C in your terminal and having it abort the program instead of copying some text. Those shortcuts date back to the IBM Common User Access standards. Some people might remember them from DOS EDIT.