Terminal: Copy and Paste Bug while using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V shortcuts

[nabanita-sarkar]

Environment

Windows build number: 1903 for cmd
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): latest from the Microsoft store

Any other software? N/A

Steps to reproduce

Copy any text using keyboard shortcut ctrl + C and try to paste it using ctrl + V shortcut.

Expected behavior

This should paste the copied text in the command line.

Actual behavior

After typing Ctrl + V only ^v is showing.

[zadjii-msft]

Do you have keybindings for copy and paste set in your profiles.json?

[zadjii-msft]

Also, please refer to the user documentation

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[dasMulli]

Has there been a discussion of changing the defaults to ctrl+c/ctrl+v by default similar to how the default conhost+cmd experience in windows is at the moment? (I assume there is a reason like making a lot of *nix programs hard to use?..)

[DHowett-MSFT]

We explicitly changed the defaults away from Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V _because_ of that reason -- it's hard to use your shell and your CLI applications when your terminal emulator gets in the way by eating common key combos. #2446 goes a long way to fixing this, because it lets you bind Ctrl+C over copy but still send ^C to the connected application when there's no selection; there is, however, no reasonable heuristic we can use for Ctrl+V.

We're trying to make something approachable for Windows _and_ Linux folks, but in some cases the best we can do is choose one option and make it trivially easy to change for the people who disagree.

[nabanita-sarkar]

Okay

[onionhammer]

@DHowett-MSFT What was wrong w/ how it worked in the other command prompt?

If text is selected CTRL+C copies
if text is not selected CTRL+C sends signal

[zadjii-msft]

@onionhammer When that comment was authored, the Terminal had a bug where whatever keybinding you had for copy would always try to copy, even if there wasn't a selection. Now that that bug is fixed, we can think about maybe adding Ctrl+C as a default copy keybinding again.

[onionhammer]

@zadjii-msft afaict it works perfectly if I just add the key-binding in manually

[iliveforfun]

Also, please refer to the user documentation

already solve my problem but is there a strict format for the definition of such command? cuz when I type a command for copying, error always happens. Although my format looks like other comand