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?
Best Answer
You could try the following two commands to paste from the clipboard. Both of them should work.
Ctrl+Shift+v
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.
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.