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opened 2026-01-30 22:44:05 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-30 22:44:05 +00:00
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Originally created by @jplew on GitHub (Jun 23, 2019).

In Powershell, I noticed that ctrl+shift+v pastes the contents of the clipboard. ctrl+shift+c does not copy anything, it just falls back to ctrl+c which is mapped to esc.

In my Ubuntu terminal, however, ctrl+shift+v does not paste. It seems the only way to copy/paste is to use right-click. Is there a way to add custom keybindings to copy/paste?

Poking around the source code I found CopyText and PasteText shortcuts:

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However, when I tried to add them to profiles.json like this, nothing happened, those keybindings don't paste anything:

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Any pointers?

Originally created by @jplew on GitHub (Jun 23, 2019). <!-- What needs to change? Who is responsible for it? Why is it an open question? --> In Powershell, I noticed that `ctrl+shift+v` pastes the contents of the clipboard. `ctrl+shift+c` does not copy anything, it just falls back to `ctrl+c` which is mapped to `esc`. In my Ubuntu terminal, however, `ctrl+shift+v` does not paste. It seems the only way to copy/paste is to use right-click. Is there a way to add custom keybindings to copy/paste? Poking around the source code I found CopyText and PasteText shortcuts: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/462836/59979370-eec70280-959b-11e9-8b2b-18c6e2de3918.png) However, when I tried to add them to profiles.json like this, nothing happened, those keybindings don't paste anything: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/462836/59979383-13bb7580-959c-11e9-88b2-a302bca10d52.png) Any pointers?
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