In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V
is not working on editor.
However from the command palette Ctrl+Shift+V
is working.
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4Look up what Ctrl+V is bound to in the keyboard shortcuts. [Gear icon/Keyboard shortcuts] - search for "ctrl+V" anything there that would conflict with paste?– MarkCommented Jul 25, 2018 at 14:13
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@Mark you are right there was a conflict issue, you can put in answer if you want to so i can select it– Ishwar Chandra TiwariCommented Jul 25, 2018 at 17:31
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1Ensure that an added extension is not the root cause. Disable them all, then turn one at a time back on. Good luck!– PorkyCommented Jun 18, 2020 at 16:05
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1This bit me hard with Jupyter notebooks in vsCode - paste is remapped, it seems!– ptimCommented Jun 25, 2020 at 8:16
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1in my VSCode settings is fine. ctrl+a and ctrl+z is working, but ctrl+c and ctrl+v is wrong. rebooting VSCode is helped me.– romanownCommented Mar 1, 2021 at 6:40
32 Answers
I´ve had this problem when I enabled the "VIM" plugin for VSCode.
After uninstalling it, the problem was fixed.
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6Thanks, this was the culprit for me too. When I disabled the plugin, reloaded VS Code, re-enabled VIM the problem was gone though. Commented May 20, 2019 at 6:48
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2In my case, I had "Clipboard History" installed. Disabling that seemed to work. Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 15:52
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Ya except I cannot live without Vim... I wish there was a Vim plugin for everything that has a text editor– GerryCommented Apr 15, 2023 at 15:23
Open the keyboard shortcuts preferences by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + P and search for open keyboard shortcuts file.
Then, search for the editor.action.clipboardPasteAction property. In your case, it might be CTRL+SHIFT+V. Try changing it to Ctrl + V. Like so:
Solution as of 2022
You could also CTRL + SHIFT + P and search for open keyboard shortcuts (JSON) and paste the following:
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
{
"key": "ctrl+v",
"command": "-workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
"when": "terminalFocus && !accessibilityModeEnabled && terminalShellType == 'pwsh'"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+k",
"command": "workbench.action.terminal.clear"
}
]
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3I open keybord shortcut file and find "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction" there is Ctrl+V, Commented Jul 25, 2018 at 17:28
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3+1 Just as a for instance of what such a conflict could look like, I have the VIm emulation plugin installed, and
extension.vim_cmd+v
had grabbed control of paste in ways I don't think it intended to. Swapped the shortcut for that command to ctrl-option-command-v in Keyboard Shortcuts (not the json version) and things are happy again.– ruffinCommented Apr 7, 2020 at 16:37 -
1If you want Ctrl+V to paste in a VS Code terminal as well open your keyboard shortcuts and find workbench.action.terminal.paste and replace it with
Ctrl+V
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@WebD'is answer is very helpful and I have upvoted it. But my comment focused on whether there was a conflicting binding for CTRL-V and how to find it. You can literally type "Ctrl+V
" (note the "plus+" sign, not a hyphen) and it will find all keybindings that use that binding in whole or part. I suggest that there must be a something else also bound to CTRL-V.
Since this original answer, vscode introduced another way to see what other commands might be bound to given keystrokes. With the Gear/Keyboard Shortcuts file open click on the little keyboardy icon to the right (or Alt+K with this file open) and it will indicate Recording Keys
next to it. Now you can literally press Ctrl+V (or whichever keybinding you are interested in) and those corresponding commands, if any, that use that keybinding will be filtered up.
Remember to disable the Recording Keys
functionality by clicking the keyboardy icon if you want to go back to regular searching in the Keyboard Shortcuts file.
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Pressing "CTRL+V" is a great idea. It showed me that with the PowerShell extension installed, an entry is present ("terminalFocus && !accessibilityModeEnabled && terminalShellType == 'pwsh'") that will hijack that keyboard combination. Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 18:34
If you install the vim extension for visual studio code and find that ctrl + x, ctrl + v .. or other shortcuts stopped working, this is because they are overwritten by extension.vim_
If you prefer to get those shortcuts back go to keyboard shortcuts (ctrl + shift + p, then search for open keyboard shortcuts file).
- Search for extension.vim_ and check too see if any shortcuts are assigned to your key combination like ctrl + v. Remove it (right click, delete).
- Also check for any other conflict by searching the file.
- Save the file, it should work now.
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1Thanks. On my mac removing
extension.vim_cmd+v
enabled pasting in insert mode, and following @unstable's advice to setvim.useSystemClipboard
to true enabled pasting in normal mode withp
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This was the problem for me, but with AmVim. Strangely, although it had entries for Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v, only Copy wasn't working. Paste was fine. But deleting the AmVim Ctrl+C entry got back my shortcut. Commented Mar 17, 2021 at 17:26
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1For me I had to open
settings.json
and add"vim.useCtrlKeys": false
to the file and then all ctrl shortcuts worked again. Commented Jan 24, 2022 at 4:19
I have the same problem: can't CTRL+X, CTRL+C, CTRL+V on VSCode editor. I uninstall the Vim extension and the problem is fixed.
For future searchers who do not have Vim (or any other extension) installed which is causing the issue, and who might have verified that their keyboard bindings are correct....
I have the Salesforce Extension Pack installed and had right-clicked on a file and run SFDX: Deploy Source to Org. The deployment had errors, so in the Panel area (which I have at the bottom of my screen) [see image] I had clicked on both the OUTPUT and PROBLEMS tabs, which shifted focus away from my PowerShell TERMINAL tab.
My Ctrl-V
issue was when I was trying to correct my Apex code in the EDITOR pane. Ctrl-V
was not pasting the code I had just Cut or Copied (but right-clicking and choosing Paste was working).
I ultimately discovered, when I changed my Panel focus back to my PowerShell TERMINAL tab, that ALL of the Ctrl-V
pasting I had attempted had shown up after my PowerShell prompt! ["circled" in blue in image]
tl;dr
Make sure your pasted text did not show up in your TERMINAL - even if it is not in focus or even if your cursor is in another Panel tab or in the EDITOR.
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2I can confirm that the "TERMINAL" window is the issue. For me, it wasn't even pasting it there. After I interrupted the terminal, the Ctrl + V worked fine. This is definitely a bug.– JohnnyCommented Apr 20, 2021 at 12:23
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2No vim, no salesforce extension pack, very common extensions working in c# I'm not sure how it resolved but opening the terminal attempt to paste, nothing, click on the clear button to clear the terminal and it switched to a Powershell window with a blinking cursor and I could suddenly paste anywhere again with ctrl-v. It's a bug of some kind.– JohnCCommented Apr 29, 2021 at 13:47
From File
> Performance
> Keyboard Shortcuts
> search paste
> just try to remove or rest some keybinding
with right click on paste
or default:paste
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1I removed the
editor.action.clipboardPasteAction
keybinding. Not entirely sure what that command does anyway as it works without it. It'd be great to know what the difference is betweendefault:paste
,paste
,editor.action.clipboardPasteAction
andexecPaste
, as paste works without any of those keybindings. Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 1:02
This problem happened to me after I left VSC update itself (currently 1.53.0). It had been converted to Shift-Insert.
Go to File->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts. Find the editor.action.clipboardPasteAction
and double click it, then type Ctrl+V.
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If you have the Vim extension installed, you may set the vim.useSystemClipboard in the vim extension setting to true. Then you can paste the content from the clipboard by simply pressing p in the NORMAL mode, or use Ctrl+V in the INSERT mode.
+1 for this - in case this helps anyone:
In my case it was only happening in the Thunder Client extension's text fields.
The culprit for me was the Indent on Paste extension (I'm on a Mac, so it was cmd+v instead of ctrl+v - but it fires the same event in VS Code).
I've left issue comments on the Thunder Client and Indent on Paste repos respectively, should anyone wish to add to those.
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1I am on Mac too and I found this helpful. disabling the
Indent on Paste for Visual Studio Code
solved it for me at the time when I had a similar issue. Also, @webD answer is helpful too Commented Jul 10, 2021 at 5:43
Look if and remove any VS Code extension : for example - "Awesome Emacs Keymap" in my case, or any other keymaps installed.
i.e. : FILE/Preferences>/extensions and then look if any special keymap was installed
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1for me, the culprit was
vscodeemacs.emacs
github.com/VSCodeEmacs/Emacs– AnuCommented Nov 20, 2021 at 18:24
Modify the setting of vscode: Settings - input:vim ctrl key - unselect: Enale some vim ctrl key commands that override otherwise common operations, like ctrl + c
There should something conflicting to your any previous keyboard shortcut like in my case for Change All Occurrence: (Ctrl-C + Ctrl-A), vs code, confused with Ctrl-C for a copy shortcut to this : (Ctrl-C + Ctrl-A), so I change this to (Shift-C + Shift-A), My Issue resolved.
Go to File>Preference>keyboard Shortcuts Then Check for Copy and paste and enter the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+v shortcuts
Happy Coding ;)
None of the issues above solved this for me. I had a key binding Ctrl+C Ctrl+L. So when I pressed Ctrl+C it was in a state where it was waiting for the next key to be pressed and wouldn't do anything.
This showed up in the toolbar like so (an example):
This didn't come up in the list of keybindings when searching for Ctrl+C. So I found it be looking through the list.
For me the solution was going through my extensions and disabling them one by one to find the culprit.
I had 'Paste and Indent' enabled which was messing up copying and pasting.
Just had to disable it and reload vs code.
Open Settings > keyboard shortcuts
Search for Ctrl + c
Delete the mapping for vim.
i have same problem step:1
ctrl+shift+p
step:2 find
Open keyboard shortcuts
step:3
find paste
then you can see
editor.action.cliboardPasteAction
right click then changekeybinding if key wrong
or remove key if u found two same line(editor.action.cliboardPasteAction)
in my case is 2nd one(so i removed)
In my case just the relaunch of VSCode solved the issue. My key bindings were fine.
In some cases, if you use remote ssh connects to a remote server and code there, ctrl + V may not be useful because that your remote server has a high balance, you can try to uninstall some useless plugins in that remote server then reload vscode.
"Paste JSON as Code" was my offender, as well as a few other ones. I got a little extension happy there for a bit.
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This isue may also be caused by the WSL pluggin. However only for the terminal. Visual Studio Code will automatically ask you to install the WSL plugging if it detects that you have WSL installed on your machine. However it will also change the console to accept left click to paste. It should still support CTRL + V. In my case it somehow forgot to do this. Disabeling/Enabling resolved this! Commented Mar 12 at 16:17
I have disabled all extensions, and VS Code hangs for a few seconds whenever I try to paste something. This occurs with Ctrl+V, Shift+Ins and also with right click + Paste.
It hangs, and then nothing happens.
[UPDATE] I simply reinstalled it, and that solved the issue for me.
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1This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. - From Review– gremurCommented Mar 22, 2022 at 12:31
Its easy don't worry, you need to search using ctrl+shift+p
and find Prefernces: Open Keyboard Shortcuts(JSON) and add this dict
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
{
"key": "ctrl+c",
"command": "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
"when": "textInputFocus"
}
]
I thins it's very helpfull good luck :)
If you did everything above, but you still cannot use ctrl+c, ctrl+v to copy paste in terminal, this is the fix:
ctrl + shift + p, then search for settings.json, and click Open User Settings (JSON):
make sure you have this line in it:
{
...
"terminal.integrated.sendKeybindingsToShell": false,
...
}
Then, ctrl + shift + p, then search for keyboard shortcuts, and click Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON):
Delete everything, and paste this in it:
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaultsauto[]
[
{
"key": "ctrl+v",
"command": "workbench.action.terminal.paste",
"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+v",
"command": "-workbench.action.terminal.paste",
"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+c",
"command": "workbench.action.terminal.copySelection",
"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated && terminalTextSelected || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported && terminalTextSelected"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+c",
"command": "-workbench.action.terminal.copySelection",
"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated && terminalTextSelected || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported && terminalTextSelected"
}
]
In my case everything was solved changing into Ctrl + v here:
workbench.action.terminal.paste
:
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Could you maybe show why you did the action to help the person asking the question to be able to know how to do something similar and add more settings? Commented Apr 3, 2023 at 17:41
**For 2023 coders : **.
If your shortcut keys such as Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V not working ( neither in code file nor in Terminal ), no need to worry 😄
Try : Ctrl+insert (for copy) , Shift+insert (for paste )
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Insert is much, MUCH harder to reach then V. Not really a solution.– BowisCommented Sep 12, 2023 at 14:38
In my case it was not taking the latest text copied in clipboard,
I have removed the key bindings of copy and paste associated (insert binding) was there except the ctrl + c
& ctrl + v
and restarted the vs code editor
keybindings (windows) -> ctrl + shift + p -> keyboard shortcuts
The issue for me was the extension "Eclipse Win Keymap". I uninstalled and made sure I have only the "Eclipse Keymap" and it is back to normal now.