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ctr+V will finally work as paste in command prompt. Finally !

It's hilarious that this makes it into the demo.

It is hilarious how terrible the terminal emulator is on Windows in general.

It wasn't a big deal with CMD as, frankly, CMD barely got touched since forever. But they've been actively developing Powershell now for many years but yet shoved it into the same antiquated terminal emulator.

I'm glad they're at least looking at it. Next up hopefully Control Panel. Barely changed since Windows 95 and subpar relative to what Apple do in OS X.

It's (I think) symptomatic of an organization that prioritizes new-hotness work over old-and-busted work.

I think that was their messaging -- the theme of these release is "we've fixed all the annoying things people complain about, from the Start Button for novice users to command prompt for power users". They want this release to feel, above all, familiar.

There's been "QuickEdit" Mode for years which lets you right-click the mouse to paste or to copy text. But, CTRL+V will be a nice convenience.

To enable QuickEdit mode: right-click command prompt title bar and choose "Properties" from the context menu. In the "Options" tab, check "QuickEdit Mode". Now you can select text by pressing and dragging mouse, copy text with right click, and paste text with right click.

If you do any terminal work whatsoever on Windows (be it cmd/powershell/cygwin) I highly recommend ConEmu which has that and all other goodies you find on other OS's decent terminal apps

I use cmder, it's beautiful and it has pipeline, emacs shortcuts, less, grep, cat, ls, ssh, and more.

cmder is basically a customised conemu

unfortunately I work for a large enterprise that wont even give developers admin access to their machines, so I'm stuck with cmd :(

you don't need admin access to use conemu/cmder: download a zip, extract to any place you do have access to and off you go

thanks for that, will check it out.

I hope they make it resizeable too like any other emulator on *nix world.

No, that's reserved for the future versions.

Yeah, let's not spoil the kids who choose our platform...

And I've already got used to "Alt+Space", then "E", then "P".

Absence of ctrl+v in the terminal was one of the most simple and obvious clous that Microsoft didn't give a .... about developers. Absurd ad infinitum that it took this long.

maybe because serious Windows developers shouldn't be using command prompt?

Powershell and Powershell ISE is available for almost a decade now?

Why would I need an additional shell app to be able to simply use ctrl+v? For instance, on OS X I use the default terminal shipped with the OS, it does everything I need for a terminal application. Is a pasting functionality consistent with the rest of the OS too much to ask for a default shell?

That's a fair point. powershell ships by default though, it should be the default instead of cmd.exe

Powershell can't handle ctrl+v either. It puts in a ^V character. You can paste with a right click in Powershell, but no ctrl+v.

"Powershell ISE" does

ISE isn't really a terminal emulator though. It's an IDE.

Not out of the box, but ctrl+v works with https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

Paste in command prompt? This works today: Alt-Space, E, P

Oh, that's simple

beware that this will stop your current job in the unix world

Ctrl+Shift+V

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