> I really like the copy/paste functionality you find in the Linux console
> and in PuTTY where you just highlight the text you want to copy and when
> you release the mouse button, it is copied.  Then, you can just right click
> to paste it into the input line.
>
> How would I engineer such functionality in Konsole?
The same way? Just mark some text somewhere and paste it with the middle 
mousebutton.

- Sascha