On 25/08/2025 04:22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
As far as Ctrl-V in terminals goes, I've never seen any terminal where that would initiate a paste operation. Ctrl-V is usually bound to the "lnext" (literal next) character via stty(1).
Enough terminal application use [Ctrl+Shift+C] and [Ctrl+Shift+V] shortcuts by default to copy and paste to/from clipboard (not PRIMARY selection). xterm(1) has an example how to achieve similar behavior (SELECT is not exactly the same as CLIPBOARD though)
*VT100*translations: #override \n\
Shift <Key>Home: copy-selection(SELECT) \n\
Shift <Key>Insert: copy-selection(SELECT) \n\
Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(SELECT) \n\
Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(SELECT)
As to vim and "set mouse=", an alternative is to press and hold [Shift]
before text selection by mouse drag. This trick is widely supported by
terminal applications so it is not limited to vim. See ":help mouse" for
more details.