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Before my upgrade to Big Sur, pressing ctrlcmdV pasted the current selection with special characters escaped. It's still shown in the menu with this keyboard shortcut.
However, when I press this keyboard shortcut, I get some kind of history popup:
Where does this popup come from? I can't seem to find any references to it in the menu. Most importantly: how can I paste the clipboard content escaped into my terminal window?
You can do this with Keyboard Maestro, using a macro such as this:
You can set up a custom hotkey to launch an app using a workflow:
Go to the workflows tab, create a new workflow and add a hotkey and a 'launch apps' with Terminal selected as the app to launch.
You can use KeyRemap4MacBook with a private.xml such as this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_Terminal</name>
<url>file:///Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>Activate Terminal with ⌘Space</name>
<identifier>ActivateTerminalWithCmdSpace</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::SPACE, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE,
KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_Terminal
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
You can create a service in Automator:
…then in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Services you can assign a keyboard command to run it.
To solve this problem:
Best Answer
Apparently Clipy uses the same keyboard shortcut for a command. The shortcut can be changed though.
D'oh!