How to paste into nano from clipboard?

Question

I have an Ubuntu server hosted by Vultr which I am interacting with remotely using their provided terminal. I would like to know how to paste from my clipboard into nano, which I am using to write the code for my server. I have tried Ctrl+U but this does not work for me.

Other keyboard shortcut commands work, such as write out Ctrl+O and quit Ctrl+X, so I am sure that the Vultr terminal can recognise these keyboard commands.

I'm sure there is a way to paste into nano from the clipboard but I'm not sure what the shortcut is.

Question: What is the keyboard shortcut to paste from clipboard into nano? If there is no way to do this, what native Linux editor is capable?

Solution 1

You could try the following two commands to paste from the clipboard. Both of them should work.

1. Ctrl+Shift+v

2. Shift+Insert

The Ctrl+U command only allows pasting text that was copied or cut from within nano itself, hence the reason the command is not working.

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Edit:

Unfortunately, for the specific case when using Vultr console, there seems to be no easy way of using copy and paste. Vultr simply does not support it. An alternative would be to use SSH together with another terminal to connect to the server. If you are on Windows, using putty would work.

Solution 2

SSH Putty windows Shift+right mouse click worked for me with default putty settings.

Solution 3

I successfully used right mouse button to paste from Windows 10 to nano on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".

Solution 4

nano itself has no system clipboard integration; it is dependent on the terminal's clipboard handling for interacting with it.

From the Vultr documentation:

Notes about console: The console software does not support cut & paste.

If you want clipboard handling as given in the question then you will have to use a SSH program and terminal that supports it.

Solution 5

If there is no way to do this, what native Linux editor is capable?

I'm not sure if Nano actually can do this more or less natively without explicit support from the terminal, but you may want to use X11-enabled Vim over an X11-forwarded session (ssh -X). Then "+y command will yank ("copy") to the X11 clipboard, and "+p will put ("paste") from there — without the need for terminal to support this.

Note that X11-enabled Vim doesn't mean GUI version (gVim). Console Vim can remain in the terminal, but is still able to access X11 clipboard thanks to being linked with X11 libraries. It just has to know your (forwarded) DISPLAY.

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Comments

[jrh]

Did you try right clicking on the terminal that you are running your SSH session in? Some terminals use right click for paste.

[TOOGAM]

The paragraph after the numbered list is correct. The nano command does not try to access the clipboard of a GUI. (You may have multiple clipboards. Using Ctrl-K from nano, to cut, will use nano's internal clipboard.)

[MechMK1]

As a nano user myself, I can tell you that nano does indeed have a clipboard, accessed via CTRL+K to cut out a line and CTRL+U to paste it again.

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

It has a cutspace, yes. But no system clipboard integration.

[MechMK1]

Your answer mentions nano "having no clipboard capability", which is not the same as "not integrating the clipboard of a window manager".

[Attie]

@MechMK1 a "clipboard" is a system-wide concept that provides inter-application operation, nano does not support this.

[ElectricLlama]

I'm using Terminus and it worked for me - yay

[JohnC]

Worked for me: Windows 10 10.0.17763 to Nano in a Linux container

[chen]

It works for Windows 10 subsystem ubuntu.

[GaTechThomas]

Same here. Win10 2004 19041.450.

[xpioneer]

why this is not mentioned in the help section of nano I am wondering. how did you come to know?

[osemec]

On windows it is right shift + insert.

[kbridge4096]

@xpioneer from nano help: ^U (F10) Uncut from the cutbuffer into the current line. Oh, 'uncut', great.

[neuronet]

only thing that worked for me: accepted answer didn't work

[Neeraj]

Nice! Works in Windows Terminal as well.

[Admin]

Works on macos as well