VS Code Keyboard Shortcut for "Paste" Command Not Used in PowerShell Terminal Window

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Summary

When I press CTRL+V in the “PowerShell Extension” Terminal, the text in the Windows Clipboard is not pasted. Instead, nothing happens.

The VS Code Keyboard Shortcuts window shows that the Paste command and Terminal: Paste into Active Terminal command are mapped to CTRL+V, which is what I want because I remember doing something to the Terminal to make it use CTRL+V.

However, there is an entry at the bottom that kicks in when the terminalShellType is “pwsh”. I assume that “pwsh” refers to the “PowerShell Extension” terminal although “pwsh” does not appear in the Terminal window.

PowerShell Version

> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.2.6
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.2.6
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17763
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visual Studio Code Version

> code --version
1.72.2
d045a5eda657f4d7b676dedbfa7aab8207f8a075
x64

Extension Version

> code --list-extensions --show-versions | Select-String powershell

ms-vscode.powershell@2022.8.5

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start VS Code with the PowerShell Extension installed and the Terminal’s Paste command mapped to CTRL+V.
2. Copy a word from a web page (e.g. “Steps”).
3. Click in the Terminal (PowerShell Extension).
4. Press CTRL+V

Visuals

Logs

After following the instructions to set the log level to Diagnostic, I reproduced the problem and closed VS Code. Then, when I looked at C:\Users\zchoy\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.powershell-2022.8.5, I could not find a folder named logs.

The Settings window did not have a reference to anything called a “settings file”. I also tried typing “settings file” into the textbox that appears in VS Code after pressing CTRL+P. VS Code said “No matching results”.

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[andschwa]

Well, this is weird. I can reproduce this still too, but Ctrl-Shift-V works. They’re both default keybindings and bound to the same thing:

{ "key": "ctrl+shift+v",          "command": "workbench.action.terminal.paste",
                                     "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported" },
{ "key": "ctrl+v",                "command": "workbench.action.terminal.paste",
                                     "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported" },