I spend a lot of time working in the terminal, often on a ubuntu/debian linux. But there comes those times when working with on windows is is more convenient For those occasions, I use Cygwin.
Up until today whenever I wanted to copy or paste something into the terminal, I'd have to right click copy...right click paste. So I got thinking, there has got to be a way to change the keyboard mapping so I can use a more natural combination like strl+shift+c ... and it turns out there is. Here's how to enable the feature.
Up until today whenever I wanted to copy or paste something into the terminal, I'd have to right click copy...right click paste. So I got thinking, there has got to be a way to change the keyboard mapping so I can use a more natural combination like strl+shift+c ... and it turns out there is. Here's how to enable the feature.
1. Start Cygwin
3. Choose "Options" from the dropdown context menu
5. Make sure the "Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts" checkbox is checked.
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2. Click the cygwin icon in the upper leftmost corner of the window
4. Click on the "Keys" item in the tree list on the left.
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Next time you need to copy or paste in your terminal, just press the shift k
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