How do I copy/paste in WSL terminal?

[jplew]

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:

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

Any pointers?

[Shorotshishir]

@jplew while in terminal everything u mark with the mouse is copied automatically,
right-click to twice to paste. (works for all terminal)

[jplew]

@Shorotshishir thanks for the reply. What if I don't want to use the mouse though? Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?

[Shorotshishir]

Adding with this issue, while in the terminal the new clipboard functionality doesn't work properly. If the terminal is active windows+v and click, copies the data but "uses ctrl+v" as the command to paste, thus it doesn't paste properly. if right clicked after that then it pastes. We do need quite a lot of tweaks to make all the things work together.

@jplew I am also going through the source code, I do believe there is a workaround. I need to dig deeper.

[mjbright]

It would be nice to have some configurable copy/paste settings.

I came to open an issue as I found copy/paste difficult to use.

I'd really like to be able to double click a word to copy, triple click to select a line.
Then shift-Insert to paste

When selecting/copying text in the old "Cmd.exe" way was tricky or buggy - sometimes it didn't paste.

[RZomerman]

in CMD and PowerShell I'm used to selecting the text, press enter and it would be copied.. doesnt work in the terminal though ;( ..

[DrMelon]

Does Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste work for you?

[mjbright]

From my point of view it's a pain each time I switch from one Terminal type to another having to remember/learn different ways of selecting/copying/pasting which is why I'd really push for providing a choice. Personally I've got used to and am very happy with (with MobaXTerm): SELECTION: - single-click drag to select whatever I want double-click to select a word triple-click to select a line COPY: well it was already done thank you when you selected (Nice) PASTE: - shift-Insert I guess good selection with auto-copy is the most important to me, then I can adapt to Shift-Insert, Ctrl-V, "stand on my chair and shout" or whatever ... I think allowing this to be a profile setting would satisfy a lot of people.

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[mrwiora]

shift-insert works on powershell, but not on cmd and debian. missing that...

[jeffpatton1971]

Yea, it would be nice, the default is nifty, i miss the default select with mouse and then hitting enter for copy worked in powershell, and i think also in putty? but i don't recall.

[jeffpatton1971]

Just to add to my previous comment, the default right-click behavior doesn't always work...for example copying 8 characters from the terminal (select characters) and then right clicking into vscode results in my previous buffer being copied, so it's not picking up my selection?

[mmacphail]

Yeah shift + insert for WSL is a must have