Multiple Line Paste

[mmanueljoao]

Windows Terminal version

1.16.10262.0

Windows build number

10.0.22621.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

I'm getting mixed information about whether muliple line pasting is or is not available.

At this time, when trying to paste this example

# this is a comment 
if ($env:PublicIPv4 -ne (curl -s https://checkip.amazonaws.com/) ) {
	# this is another comment
    $env:PublicIPv4 = (curl -s https://checkip.amazonaws.com/) 
} 
# yet another comment

Windows Terminal pastes and executes the first line, then the executes the complete if block and then waits for me for the last line.

Should this be the default behavior ?

Expected Behavior

Actual Behavior

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the report! This is because PsReadline's Ctrl+V handler and Terminal's Ctrl+V handler operate a little differently. There have been a pile of discussions on this in the past. I think there was a more specific on, but I can't seem to find it. For reference, see:

• Allow config so that a right-click paste emits a ctrl+v (or other user defined key sequence) instead #11414
• Reproduce multi-line paste handling from Powershell host #7794
• Pasting multiline text within the quotes does not work #13567

I think ultimately, we decided to track this upstream in PsReadline, here:

/dup PowerShell/PSReadLine#1471

If PowerShell is your primary shell, you can always unbind ctrl+v in the Terminal settings, which will let PsReadLine handle it.

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