# What is the deal with copy/paste in the vscode terminal?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478 "2023-01-04T01:01:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/1 "2023-01-04T01:01:39Z")

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ctrl-c and ctrl-v used to work (1.66.2). Now I am unable to persuade vscode to use these keys to copy from/ paste to the terminal. Any clues?

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**Author:** ![jar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jar1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/2 "2023-01-04T01:12:25Z")

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You might need ctrl+shift

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/3 "2023-01-04T01:14:46Z")

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I saw that. But I wanted ctrl-c. I tried remapping the binding, without success.

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**Author:** ![John\_Gibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/john_gibson/32/5321_2.png) [@John\_Gibson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Gibson)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/4 "2023-01-04T01:32:02Z")

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I have a constantly evolving, complex mental model of the interactions of copy/paste methods for X11, emacs, KDE clipboard, and google chrome.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/5 "2023-01-04T01:40:34Z")

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On Windows add Win+v etc.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-deal-with-copy-paste-in-the-vscode-terminal/92478/6 "2023-01-04T01:49:26Z")

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Wow. Dumb luck, but I finally chanced on the right combo:

```julia
    "terminal.integrated.sendKeybindingsToShell": false,
    {
        "key": "ctrl+c",
        "command": "-workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
        "when": "terminalFocus && terminalTextSelected",
    },

```