Now to paste the copied line in the Terminal, again right-click and select Paste. Then pick Copy from the list of options that pop-up. For instance, to copy any line from Terminal, select it and right-click it. You can also copy-paste in Terminal using the mouse right-click as you normally do with other applications. Now you will see the pasted lines on the Terminal. To paste the copied lines to Nano editor or to shell outside Nano editor, press Ctrl+Shift+v. To copy it from the Nano editor, select it and press Ctrl+Shift+c. Let's say you want to copy a line or command from the Nano editor and paste it to the Terminal. To paste the copied lines into Terminal, press Ctrl+Shift+v.Īfter that, you will see the pasted lines on the Terminal. To copy the lines from a document or webpage that is open in the graphical application, select them, and press Ctrl+c. Let's say you want to copy the text or command from a document or webpage and paste it to the Terminal. Instead of Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v, the shortcuts to copy and paste in the Linux Terminal are Ctrl+Shift+c and Ctrl+Shift+v.
In this context, we shall look into how to copy and paste text in the Linux Terminal. Here at LinuxAPT, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform Linux Terminal related queries. in Gedit, LibreOffice, OpenOffice) using the usual keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.īut you may wonder to know these usual keyboard shortcuts do not work in Linux Terminal. You may have copy-pasted text several times in your Linux GUI applications ( e.g. Instead of typing those commands or text, you can save time by copy-pasting them onto the command line Terminal application. Sometimes while working in the Linux command line, you need to type the long commands or texts you found in the file or on the internet. What is the interest in going back to the original text of the copy and past action What if you want to copy and paste at several positions in the. Namely, Clipboard->copy copies to 'clipboard', and Clipboard->paste pastes from 'clipboard'.
I attached a patch to try to make the copy/paste semantics on X saner.
You have to scroll 300 lines to go back to your previous position. Many (not all) text editors in Linux store copied text into both clipboards: selecting the text puts it in 'primary', and typing Ctrl+C puts it in 'clipboard'. Each time you want to copy and past something with the mouse, you're lost. You have several options to get the job done. Just try to write your PhD report in Latex using gedit. While it is easy to do so with the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V keyboard shortcuts, on the Linux terminal it is not so straightforward. Is not an option as I need my PC for my job and copy and paste is a big part of my job as a graphic designer.Copying and pasting is one of the most used actions on a computer.
My fiance is a PC tech and even he couldn't get it to work even after checking to make sure the clipboard was not full ( it was empty), reformatting restoring to the day before the issue started didn't help. I have tried just about everything to get this to work. If there any way to fix this? I need my copy and paste functions to work again!!!
These functions are not working in any document program on my PC nor do they work with paint shop pro or photo shop when I try to copy an image into my work image.
Right click and hit copy or do a crtl+c but when I go to paste the text into any text document regardless if using keyboard shortcut crtl+v, right click or the edit menu, the paste function is not enabled ( grayed out)
when I highlight text I can use copy ( enabled with black text) in the edit menu, I have tried using the keyboard shortcuts crtl+c and crtl+v, right click copy and paste which doesn't work and neither does the copy or paste function under the edit menu. No new programs have been installed or removed in over a month. 2 days ago I noticed that my copy and paste functions stopped working! I am using win xp home sp3 and I do NOT use any remote file sharing or remote apps.