Idea #1837: Terminal Copy and Paste

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Written by Auslegung the 29 Feb 08 at 21:21. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Allow the usage of the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + v to paste items into the Terminal. I know many of us copy commands from websites (mostly ubuntu forums for me) and paste them into the Terminal, and keyboard shortcuts are a preferred way to do it.

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logfish wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:24

In gnome-terminal you can use SHIFT-CTRL-V
See Edit->Keyboard shortcuts to change this to your own liking.

aysiu (Moderator) wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:25

Shift-Insert also works.

exactopposite wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:26

shift-insert is the shortcut to paste in the terminal

Arnaudus wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:27

It would be great to have both systems? Ctrl-C Ctrl-V and "selecting""middle-click" should have the same effect.

bigdufstuff wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:30

in a term, ctrl-c sends the TERM signal (kills the app). This is why it can not be bound to copy.

Alan Pope (Ubuntu Developer) wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:31

CTRL+C has (for many years) been used to kill foreground programs. If you change that to "copy" then you'll cause as much (if not more) issues than leaving it be.

Auslegung wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 16:27

Well then, seems I've made a dumb suggestion, but have found a way to get what I want, so thank you all. Oh, and vote down the hell out of my suggestion.

antistress wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 01:01

i didn't understand either why ctrl+shift+c but now it's clear

BadChoice wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 16:33

mouse middle button also does it! its the fastest way

spyyder wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 01:43

So because a bunch of old timers are unwilling to change thier ways we have to have an antiquated keyboard short-cut. Way to be on the cutting edge Ubuntu!! This is ridiculous.

_sebastian_ wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 01:56

When you open the Edit menu both shortcuts are shown to you.

please keep +C killing foreground programs

davidmarsden wrote on the 12 Jul 08 at 15:37

If you want to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for cut and paste you can use Alt-F2 > gconf-editor > apps > gnome-terminal > keybindings > look for copy and paste > right-click > edit key > delete

r0g wrote on the 20 Nov 08 at 00:07

@spyyder

Ubuntu is based on Linux, Linux is based on Unix and one of the reasons that is good is because that means Ubuntu can run a huge number of terminal based programs. It has been convention for MANY MANY years that these programs use CTRL+C to exit. It's not as much "a bunch of old timers are unwilling to change thier ways" as no-one wants to...
A) Rewrite tens/hundreds of thousands of old apps
B) Confuse the f*** out of everyone who's already knows Unix/Linux.

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