In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V is not working

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In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V is not working on editor.

However from the command palette Ctrl+Shift+V is working.

Look 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? — Mark, Jul 25 '18 at 14:13
@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 Tiwari, Jul 25 '18 at 17:31
Ensure that an added extension is not the root cause. Disable them all, then turn one at a time back on. Good luck! — Porky, Jun 18 '20 at 16:05
This bit me hard with Jupyter notebooks in vsCode - paste is remapped, it seems! — ptim, Jun 25 '20 at 08:16
in 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. — romanown, Mar 01 '21 at 06:40

score 48 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 24 '22 at 11:33

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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"
  }
]

edited Jul 24 '22 at 11:33

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answered Jul 25 '18 at 14:12

WebD

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I open keybord shortcut file and find "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction" there is Ctrl+V, – Ishwar Chandra Tiwari Jul 25 '18 at 17:28
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Do you have another action for ctrl+v in the file? – WebD Jul 25 '18 at 17:30
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Yes there was a conflict issue – Ishwar Chandra Tiwari Jul 25 '18 at 17:32
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+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. – ruffin Apr 07 '20 at 16:37
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If 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`. – Tom Mulkins Apr 02 '21 at 16:42
I had issues with both CTRL+V and CTRL+C I solved the ctrl+v with your method and ctrl+c by unistalling VIM plugin. – Ender Jan 05 '22 at 18:37

score 47 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '19 at 20:14

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I´ve had this problem when I enabled the "VIM" plugin for VSCode.

After uninstalling it, the problem was fixed.

answered Apr 22 '19 at 20:14

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Thanks, this was the culprit for me too. When I disabled the plugin, reloaded VS Code, re-enabled VIM the problem was gone though. – Thor Galle May 20 '19 at 06:48
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In my case, I had "Clipboard History" installed. Disabling that seemed to work. – hallmanitor Sep 23 '19 at 15:52
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Yeah same here. Vim was the problem. – Ender Jan 05 '22 at 18:36
Thanks - I had the exact same caused by VIM plugin! – Dave Hogan Nov 29 '22 at 15:44
Ya except I cannot live without Vim... I wish there was a Vim plugin for everything that has a text editor – Gerry Apr 15 '23 at 15:23

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01T08:24:26.797

@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.

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. — Zian Choy, Oct 19 '22 at 18:34

score 16 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 14:57

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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.

answered Sep 24 '19 at 14:57

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Thanks. On my mac removing `extension.vim_cmd+v` enabled pasting in insert mode, and following @unstable's advice to set `vim.useSystemClipboard` to true enabled pasting in normal mode with `p`. – apostl3pol Aug 25 '20 at 22:24
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. – redOctober13 Mar 17 '21 at 17:26
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For me I had to open ```settings.json``` and add ```"vim.useCtrlKeys": false``` to the file and then all ctrl shortcuts worked again. – Joel Wiklund Jan 24 '22 at 04:19

score 15 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 19 '20 at 16:17

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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.

answered Sep 19 '20 at 16:17

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This is not a solution, copy/paste need to work WITH vim – Gerry Apr 15 '23 at 15:25

score 12 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 02 '21 at 17:17

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.

I 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. — Johnny, Apr 20 '21 at 12:23
No 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. — JohnC, Apr 29 '21 at 13:47

score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 19 '21 at 04:34

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From File > Performance > Keyboard Shortcuts > search paste > just try to remove or rest some keybinding with right click on paste or default:paste

answered Jan 19 '21 at 04:34

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I 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 between `default:paste`, `paste`, `editor.action.clipboardPasteAction` and `execPaste`, as paste works without any of those keybindings. – Studocwho Sep 16 '22 at 01:02

score 6 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 15 '19 at 02:38

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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.

answered Oct 15 '19 at 02:38

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score 6 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 22:31

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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.

answered Feb 09 '21 at 22:31

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Same here (current v1.55) – Jono Apr 28 '21 at 23:34

score 4 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 02 '21 at 12:25

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+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.

answered Jun 02 '21 at 12:25

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I 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 – Chetam Okafor Jul 10 '21 at 05:43

score 4 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 08 '21 at 17:40

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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

answered Jul 08 '21 at 17:40

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for me, the culprit was `vscodeemacs.emacs` https://github.com/VSCodeEmacs/Emacs – Anu Nov 20 '21 at 18:24

Pixelomo · Answer 12 · 2021-07-29T02:09:17.500

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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.

edited Jul 29 '21 at 02:09

answered Aug 01 '18 at 00:26

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Min Guo · Answer 13 · 2019-09-26T04:35:12.997

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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

edited Sep 26 '19 at 04:35

answered Sep 06 '19 at 09:25

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Mher Melqonyan · Answer 14 · 2019-12-03T07:52:05.583

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go to extensions search Emacs keymap and uninstall it

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answered Dec 03 '19 at 07:46

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score 3 · Answer 15 · answered Mar 24 '20 at 17:39

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.

Shekar · Answer 16 · 2020-11-15T18:44:10.037

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Go to File>Preference>keyboard Shortcuts Then Check for Copy and paste and enter the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+v shortcuts

Happy Coding ;)

edited Nov 15 '20 at 18:44

answered Aug 26 '20 at 04:41

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score 3 · Answer 17 · edited May 03 '21 at 08:41

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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.

edited May 03 '21 at 08:41

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score 3 · Answer 18 · answered Jul 28 '21 at 06:49

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Remove all cmd+v or in windows ctrl+v associated keybindings.

answered Jul 28 '21 at 06:49

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score 3 · Answer 19 · answered Mar 07 '22 at 08:56

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Open Settings > keyboard shortcuts

Search for Ctrl + c

Delete the mapping for vim.

answered Mar 07 '22 at 08:56

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score 2 · Answer 20 · answered Feb 05 '21 at 04:21

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)

score 2 · Answer 21 · answered Mar 03 '22 at 06:57

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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.

answered Mar 03 '22 at 06:57

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score 2 · Answer 22 · answered Mar 15 '22 at 17:41

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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.

answered Mar 15 '22 at 17:41

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score 2 · Answer 23 · answered Jun 02 '22 at 05:24

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 :)

score 1 · Answer 24 · answered Nov 06 '21 at 09:51

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In my case just the relaunch of VSCode solved the issue. My key bindings were fine.

answered Nov 06 '21 at 09:51

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score 1 · Answer 25 · answered Mar 12 '22 at 01:17

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"Paste JSON as Code" was my offender, as well as a few other ones. I got a little extension happy there for a bit.

answered Mar 12 '22 at 01:17

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score 1 · Answer 26 · edited Apr 02 '23 at 18:18

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In my case everything was solved changing into Ctrl + v here:

workbench.action.terminal.paste:

workbench.action.terminal.paste

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answered Mar 27 '23 at 07:59

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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? – Lucas Urban Apr 03 '23 at 17:41

score 1 · Answer 27 · answered Jul 05 '23 at 19:10

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**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 )

answered Jul 05 '23 at 19:10

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In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V is not working

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Solution as of 2022