In May of 2019, Microsoft announced a new terminal for Windows. Twelve seconds into the video preview and I was completely sold. Fast forward to today, I finally got a chance to try the preview release. Having used iTerm on macOS for years my fingers kept wanting to use the OS default key bindings as opposed to CTRL+Shift+C
and CTRL+Shift+V
. Muscle memory is a powerful thing indeed. Anyways, here’s what I did to address this problem.
- Press
CTRL+,
to openprofiles.json
. -
Add the following entries to the
keybindings
array:{ "command": "copy", "keys": ["ctrl+c"] }, { "command": "paste", "keys": ["ctrl+v"] }
And there you have it.
In case you are wondering, when nothing is highlighted CTRL+C
will continue to work as an interrupt signal to any running task. The terminal app is smart enough to differentiate between the two scenarios.