Keyboard shortcut to paste clipboard content into command prompt window Win XP

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Is there a keyboard shortcut for pasting the content of the clipboard into a command prompt window on Windows XP  instead of using the right mouse button    The typical Shift Insert does not seem to work here

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Thanks  Pablo  for referring to AutoHotkey utility   Since I have Launchy installed which uses Alt Space I had to modify it a but to add Shift key as shown     Paste in command window  V     Spanish menu  Editar- gt Pegar  I suppose English version is the same  Edit- gt Paste  Send    Space ep return

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simplest method is just the copy the text that you want to paste it in cmd and open cmd goto  properties ---   option  tab----  check the  give tick mark   quickEdit mode  and click  ok       now you can paste any text from clipboard by doing right click from ur mouse   Thank you

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I followed  PabloG s steps as follows   goto http   www autohotkey com  - download autohotkey follow simple installation steps after installation create new   ahk file as follows right click on desktop   new   Autohotkey Script   giveAnyFileName ahk right click on this file   Edit copy paste autohotkey script given by  PabloG in his answer save and close double click on file to run Done now you should be able to use Ctrl v for paste in command prompt

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This is not really a shortcut but just a quick access to the control menu  Alt-space E P  If you can use your mouse  right click on the cmd window works as paste when I tried it

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Not really programming related  but I found this on Google  there is not a direct keyboard shortcut  but makes it a little quicker  To enable or disable QuickEdit mode   Open the MS-DOS program  or the command prompt  Right-click the title bar and press Properties  Select the Options tab  Check or un-check the QuickEdit Mode box  Press OK  In the Apply Properties To Shortcut dialog  select the Apply properties to current window only if you wish to change the QuickEdit setting for this session of this window only  or select Modify shortcut that started this window to change the QuickEdit setting for all future invocations of the command prompt  or MS-DOS program    To Copy text when QuickEdit is enabled   Click and drag the mouse pointer over the text you want  Press Enter  or right-click anywhere in the window  to copy the text to the clipboard   To Paste text when QuickEdit is enabled   Right-click anywhere in the window   To Copy text when QuickEdit is disabled   Right-click the title bar  press Edit on the menu  and press Mark  Drag the mouse over the text you want to copy  Press Enter  or right-click anywhere in the window  to copy the text to the clipboard   To Paste text when QuickEdit is disabled   Right-click the title bar  press Edit on the menu  and press Paste

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Theoretically  the application in DOS Prompt has its own clipboard and shortcuts  To import text from Windows clipboard is  extra   However you can use Alt-Space to open system menu of Prompt window  then press E  P to select Edit  Paste menu  However  MS could provide shortcut using Win-key  There is no chance to be used in DOS application

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A simpler way is to use windows powershell instead of cmd  itworks fine with texter

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Pretty simple solution may be Console 2  redefine keys and you go

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Instead of  right click     start your session  once you re in the command prompt window  by keying Alt SpaceBar  That will open the Command Prompt window menu and you ll see your familiar  underlined keyboard command shortcuts  just like in Windows GUI   Good luck

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If you re a Cygwin user  you can append the following to your    bashrc file   stty lnext  q stop undef start undef  And the following to your    inputrc file     C-v   paste-from-clipboard   C-C   copy-to-clipboard   Restart your Cygwin terminal    Note  I ve used an uppercase C for copy  since CTRL c is assigned to the break function on most consoles   Season to taste    Source

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Yes   but awkward  Link  alt   Space  e  k  lt -- for copy and alt   Space  e  p  lt -- for paste

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Thanks Pablo  just what I was looking for   However  if I can take the liberty of improving your script slightly  I suggest replacing your  V macro with the following     Use backslash instead of backtick  yes  I am a C   programmer    EscapeChar      Paste in command window   V   StringReplace clipboard2  clipboard   r n   n  All SendInput  Raw  clipboard2  return   The advantage of using SendInput is that   it doesn t rely on the command prompt system menu having an  Alt Space E P  menu item to do the pasting  works for English and Spanish  but not for all languages   it avoids that nasty flicker you get as the menu is created and destroyed    Note  it s important to include the   Raw   in the SendInput command  in case the clipboard happens to contain               or       Note  it uses StringReplace to remove excess Windows carriage return characters   Thanks hugov for that suggestion

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It took me a small while to figure out why your AutoHotkey script does not work with me     Use backslash instead of backtick  yes  I am a C   programmer    EscapeChar      Paste in command window   V   StringReplace clipboard2  clipboard   r n   n  All SendInput  Raw  clipboard2  return   In fact  it relies on keystrokes and consequently on keyboard layout  So when you are  as I am  unfortunate to have only an AZERTY keyboard  your suggestion just does not work  And worse  I found no easy way to replace SendInput method or twist its environment to fix this  For example SendInput  1  just does not send digit 1   I had to turn every character into its unicode to make it work on my computer    EscapeChar      Paste in command window   V   StringReplace clipboard2  clipboard   r n   n  All clipboard3       Loop       if  a index gt strlen clipboard2        break      char asc    Asc SubStr clipboard2  a Index  1          if  char asc  gt  127 and char asc  lt  256       add zero     0      else      add zero            clipboard3     clipboard3      Asc      add zero   char asc         SendInput  clipboard3  return   Not very simple

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I personally use a little AutoHotkey script to remap certain keyboard functions  for the console window  CMD  I use     Redefine only when the active window is a console window   IfWinActive ahk class ConsoleWindowClass    Close Command Window with Ctrl w   w   WinGetTitle sTitle If  InStr sTitle   -   0         Send EXIT Enter    else       Send  w    return      Ctrl up   Down to scroll command window back and forward  Up   Send  WheelUp  return   Down   Send  WheelDown  return     Paste in command window  V     Spanish menu  Editar- gt Pegar  I suppose English version is the same  Edit- gt Paste  Send   Space ep return   IfWinActive

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If you use the clipboard manager Ditto  open source  gratis   you can simply use the shortcut to paste from Ditto  and it will paste the clipboard in CMD for you

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You could try using Texter and create something unlikely like     p   triggered by space and replacing the text with  c  I just tested it and it works fine  The only gotcha is to use a rare sequence  as Texter cannot restrict this to just cmd   There are probably other utilities of this kind which could work  and even AutoHotKey  upon which Texter is built could do it better  but Texter is easy  -

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On Windows 10  you can enable Ctrl    C and Ctrl    V to work in the command prompt

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Under VISTA Command prompt  Click on the System Icon Select Defaults from the Menu On the Options tab in the Options group I have  Quick Edit Mode    Insert Mode   and  Auto Complete  selected I think that  Quick Edit Mode  is what makes it work   To paste whatever is in the Clipboard at the insertion point  Right Click  To copy from the Command Window   Select by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the pointer across what you want to copy   Once selected  right click   To paste at the insertion point  right click again

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Here s a free tool that will do it on Windows  I prefer it to a script as it s easy to set up  It runs as a fast native app  works on XP and up  has configuration settings that allow to remap copy paste selection keys for command windows     Plus I know the developers

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I ve recently found that command prompt has support for context menu via the right mouse click  You can find more details here  http   www askdavetaylor com copy paste within microsoft windows command prompt html

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There is also a great open source tool called clink  which extends cmd by many features  One of them is being able to use ctrl v to insert text

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