catalinacommand linecopy/pastemacoszsh
Somehow something seems to have been changed with my Zsh configuration or Terminal settings under macOS Catalina (10.15.7). If I copy some text, say from a TextEdit window, the usual paste command and shortcut-key (⌘ CommandV) no longer paste that text onto the command line in Terminal.
How to fix this so it works as expected?
Was cmd from R64's AppleScript dictionary or something?
You can run a command in Terminal with the do script verb.
tell application "Terminal"
do script with command the_selection in window 1
end tell
The "foo.bar can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" error is because of Gatekeeper. You can disable Gatekeeper from System Preferences:
Selecting "Always Open With" from the "Open With > Other..." dialog only changes the default application for the selected files. You can change the default application for all files of a type from a Show Info window:
You can add a context menu item for opening files in TextEdit by creating a service like this with Automator:
If you have the Powerpack for Alfred 2, you can also create a workflow like this:
You can use duti to make TextEdit the default application for plain text files without an extension and executable scripts. Install Homebrew, run brew install duti, save
com.apple.TextEdit public.plain-text all
com.apple.TextEdit public.unix-executable all
as ~/.duti, and then run /usr/local/bin/duti ~/.duti.
Best Answer
I discovered that the problem arose from an error in my .profile, which is loaded by .zshrc. With .profile fixed, copy/paste into Terminal works normally, whether with usual Cmd-C/Cmd-V keyboard cominations or Edit menu selections.