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My current technique is to right-click in the command prompt and then click paste. This bugs me - is there a better way?

Jude Allred
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Its not amazingly user friendly, but you can paste with ALT+Space, e, p.

From here.

BenA
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This was solved on Server Fault:

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->Pegar, I suppose English version is the same, Edit->Paste)
Send !{Space}ep
return


#IfWinActive
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admintech
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4

alt+space+E+P should do it

MDMarra
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1

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

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Franck Dernoncourt
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If you're wanting to pipe lots of clipboard text into another program, you can use PowerShell's Get-Clipboard nowadays.

powershell Get-Clipboard | more

(To copy text, you can pipe it into clip, which is supported directly in cmd.)

mwfearnley
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Control and V, like the rest of the OS :P

#IfWinActive, ahk_class ConsoleWindowClass
^v:: Send !{Space}ep
#IfWinActive

(Yep, that's just automating the previous answers, but automating them it is. Autohotkey! :))

Phoshi
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