Mouse copy & paste
Copy on select, right-click and middle-click paste, and the paste-and-run guard.
Mouse copy & paste
Copy and paste with the mouse the way your old terminal did, whether that was macOS Terminal, PuTTY or Windows Terminal. All of it is set in Settings → Terminal → Mouse.
Copy
- Copy on select (on by default) copies text as soon as you let go of the mouse. A small Copied note appears at the pointer.
- Double-click selects a word, and triple-click selects a line.
- From the keyboard, use ⌘C on macOS, or Ctrl+Shift+C on Windows and Linux.
Right-click
Choose what a right-click does:
| Setting | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Show menu (default) | Opens a menu with Copy, Paste, Select all, Clear scrollback and more. |
| Paste | Pastes straight away, like PuTTY and MobaXterm. |
| Copy or paste | Copies the selection if there is one, otherwise pastes, like Windows Terminal. |
Shift + right-click always opens the menu, whatever you choose here.
Paste
- ⌘V on macOS, or Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows and Linux.
- Middle-click pastes (on by default). On Linux it pastes the last selection, as X11 apps do. Elsewhere it pastes the clipboard.
The paste-and-run guard
With Confirm before pasting text that would run on, the app asks before pasting text that contains a line break the shell would treat as Enter. The dialog shows the text and offers Paste, plus Paste without running when only a trailing line break would run it.
Shells with bracketed paste (bash 5.1 and later, zsh) hold pasted text for editing anyway, so they're never interrupted.
Full-screen apps
When a program such as vim, htop or mc uses the mouse, clicks go to it. Hold Shift to select or paste anyway.