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Unable to paste to terminal
See original GitHub issueOS: Ubuntu 19.10, x86_64, code-server is running in Docker container
Browser: Firefox 74
Version: latest from Docker, pulled today
- I’ve got a command I want to execute in clipboard
2a. I press Ctrl+Shift+V, just as in VS Code terminal, it doesn’t work
2b. I try right-clicking the terminal, I get this:
As you can see, no Pasteoption 2c. For last try I pressed Ctrl+V, and I got^V, as usual. - In none of these cases command is pasted.
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- Created 4 years ago
- Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)
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Yeah, it’s a bit of a mess on Firefox.
Firefox doesn’t support the clipboard API so it’s not possible to do anything but a native paste (which is why there’s no right-click menu for pasting).
Unfortunately while Firefox will perform a native paste with
Ctrl+v, that keybinding already has a different assignment in the terminal so it can’t be used.Normally
Ctrl+Shift+Vwould also perform a native paste but in Firefox that only works incontenteditable=trueelements for some reason, and the terminal doesn’t use that (it probably should though).Shift+Insertdoes usually perform a native paste in Firefox though so that might work for you.I’ll go ahead and close this in favor of #1106. I’ll edit it a little to reflect better the current situation.