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ctrl+v inside a terminal, in ssh does not paste anything
At ~/xinitrc
, I have:
autocutsel -fork &
autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &
Which allows me to copy and paste (ctrl+v
) everwhere, without any issues.
However, when I open terminal (kitty, or even alacritty) and inside ssh. Nothing is pasted when doing ctrl+v
.
But shift+ins
works. How I can get ctrl+v
working in ssh, inside a terminal?
According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alacritty#Vi_mode_and_Copy/Paste , alacritty uses Ctrl+Shift+v for paste.
Ctrl-V historically has a different meaning in commandline shells than in GUIs and hence also in nearly all terminal emulators: It means "Enter the next character literally. That way you can e.g. enter a Ctrl-C control character literally by pressing Ctrl-V and then Ctrl-C without aborting the current program or line of input.
So yes, this is on purpose and has nothing to do with autocutsel.