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Change mintty keyboard shortcuts

mintty 2.8.5 for MSYS2 uses Shift+Insert for pasting. But on my laptop the Insert btn is unhappily combined with Delete key, i.e., to actually paste in mintty I need to press Shift+Fn+Delete, which is annoying.

Is it possible to bind the mintty paste op to Shift+Delete?

Solution

  • The only way I can think of is with a patch akin to

    diff --git a/src/wininput.c b/src/wininput.c
index 20f2f3e..0f2958c 100644
--- a/src/wininput.c
+++ b/src/wininput.c
@@ -2033,7 +2033,8 @@ win_key_down(WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp)
       goto skip_shortcuts;

     // Copy&paste
-    if (cfg.clip_shortcuts && key == VK_INSERT && mods && !alt) {
+    if (cfg.clip_shortcuts && (key == VK_INSERT || key == VK_DELETE)
+        && mods && !alt) {
       if (ctrl)
         term_copy();
       if (shift)

    I've tested it with the rev 0e65eec39 of https://github.com/mintty/mintty