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Feature: Normal ctrl-C and ctrl-V for copying and pasting

Asked by David Adler

I was using the console in cloud9 the other day and thought the way they handle copy/pasting shortcuts was excellent.

If text is selected: ctrl+c copies text, otherwise ctrl+c sends SIGINT
ctrl+v is always paste.

As much as I try I always mess up copying and pasting into the terminal.

I am willing to help implement this if it is something people would consider.

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Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy) said : 		#1

Did you try changing the copy and paste keybindings to Ctrl+c/v? Because doing that will behave exactly as you describe. In fact someone was complaining about that that they would like to avoid the confusion of double meaning by preventing the behaviour. They wanted to be able to bind SIGINT to Shift+Ctrl+v.

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David Adler (dalberto-adler) said : 		#2

Hi

Changng the copy paste to ctrl+c/v does not solve the problem.

Following that change, I am able to copy selected text with ctrl+c however ctrl+c no longer sends SIGINT (now assigned to ctrl+shift+c).

The behaviour I described is that ctrl+c still sends SIGINT except when text is selected in which case it copies the text.

Best David

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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