Add support for pasting

[Abdur-rahmaanJ]

I cannot paste anything anywhere on the UI on Linux.

[darrenburns]

Can you paste into any other terminal apps?

[danFbach]

On a similar thread, typically I am able to paste with right click.
I'm running windows 11 terminal running powershell, connected over SSH to linux. i can however paste with ctrl+v, so not a big deal.

ability to add a keybinding for copying would be nice though. copying from a response body would be useful. I swapped my quit keybinding to ctrl+q, so an optional copy kb to ctrl+c would be nice.
thanks for the software!

[darrenburns]

You should be able to copy from the response body by selecting some text (with the mouse or keyboard) and pressing either "y" or "c" to copy.

I'd note however that will copy to the clipboard of the machine you're SSH'd into, not your local machine.

[danFbach]

Ok. i get a not implemented exception (even after installing xsel or xclip).
using the remote system's clipboard would at least be helpful but isn't working...i'm using an almalinux server with no GUI.
is using the remote machine's clipboard a design choice?

[darrenburns]

It's not a design choice - xsel and xclip will copy to the clipboard of the host they're running on.

Some terminal emulators do allow you to copy to the machine the emulator itself is running on, but it'll need a small update to Posting to enable that. I'll aim to add support for it soon.

[Abdur-rahmaanJ]

@darrenburns Thanks!

Edit: I used postman once again just because of this feature ...

[darrenburns]

@Abdur-rahmaanJ Sorry, which feature specifically?

If you cannot paste, it's likely a problem on your end as pasting is supported throughout Posting. However, to help debug, you'd need to share more info - for example: what terminal you're using and can you paste in other terminal apps?

[Abdur-rahmaanJ]

Oh well that would have sorted it straightaway!

Away from PC, will do soon!

[Abdur-rahmaanJ]

@darrenburns

Linux Mint
zsh with oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k theme

[darrenburns]

Zsh is your shell, but I need to know which terminal emulator you're using to be able to help. However my suggestion would most likely be to switch to a newer emulator.

Does pasting work in nano, for example?

[darrenburns]

Closing as pasting is supported, so it's likely an environment issue.

[tmartinfr]

@darrenburns I'm using gnome terminal and am able to paste my primary X selection to other terminal apps (vim, mutt, etc), using a middle click. But not in Posting (2.3.0). Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot my issue ?

[darrenburns]

Thanks @tmartinfr - I'll look into it this weekend. Might be something to do with the new curl importing feature which captures the paste event.

[tmartinfr]

Actually it works using Shift+Insert. But not with middle click because Posting seems to intercept all mouse interactions.

[darrenburns]

Oh interesting. I might be able to do something with that - you're not the first to hit this confusion. Will let you know!