Custom copy paste keybinding debugging

[catman85]

Thank you for creating this plugin!

I am having a problem configuring the behavior of some custom keybindings. My goal is to hit ctrl+c after selecting text, to copy the selected text to the clipboard, and ctr+v to paste the text.

Following the README.md I added the following to my .zshrc

bindkey -M shift-select '^[c' copy-region-as-kill
bindkey -M shift-select '^[v' yank

After running source .zshrc I verified the shortcuts were added to the keymap by running
bindkey -M shift-select and indeed I am getting the expected results. However the shortcuts do not work as intended.

What am I missing?

Thank you in advance!

[jirutka]

Ctrl+C sends SIGINT, Ctrl+V is for verbatim input in a terminal. These keys are special and I don’t think you can redefine it. That’s why most terminals use Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V for copy/paste.

[catman85]

I managed to get ctrl+c and ctrl+v to work as intended via the following setup in my kitty.conf (Kitty Terminal Emulator config file)

map ctrl+c copy_or_interrupt
map ctrl+v paste_from_clipboard

But they only work with mouse selected text, not shift selected text

[mdzhigarov]

Hey! Great plugin but I still cannot figure out how to map this to Command+C & Command+V on Mac. Copy/paste is working if I manually select text on the iterm2 console using mouse cursor and then Cmd+C/V but if I do this using shift-select - it's not capturing it.

How do I fix this?

[flq]

Interesting one would write here after 2 years, and I am exactly on the same journey as a damn terminal noob. Selection now works fine, but copy/paste eludes me

[sommerper]

I don't think I ever had selecting text and then copying it work. A shame really because I don't know why else one would select text.

[shrpne]

@mdzhigarov Cmd+C, Cmd+V cannot be binded in zsh, but i found this working for me:

pb-copy-region-as-kill () {
  zle copy-region-as-kill
  print -rn $CUTBUFFER | pbcopy
}
zle -N pb-copy-region-as-kill
bindkey -e '^[c' pb-copy-region-as-kill

It binds Option+C to copy selected text to the zsh clipboard and to the MacOS clipboard simultaneously.
Then you can use Cmd+V to paste from Macos clipboard

Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/51933

[isometricmax]

@shrpne This is a great solution. I've actually added this a couple years back on a different machine, but forgot about it until now. This solves all my issues with the stock zsh-shift-select