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PowerShell console in Visual Studio Code: How to copy-paste?

I cannot Copy-Paste from the Visual Studio Code console. In ISE one can copy-paste some of the output, but it does not seem to be possible in Visual Studio Code Terminal. How can I copy-paste the output from the console when running PowerShell commands? I have the PowerShell Extension.

Solution

  • Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for copying / pasting work as-is in Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal.

    By contrast, right-click behavior is configurable:

    • On Windows, the default behavior is to copy, if text is currently selected, and paste otherwise - as in regular console windows.

    • To get the same behavior as in the Windows PowerShell ISE, i.e. to instead show a shortcut menu, which contains Copy and Paste commands, add the following line to your settings.json file (before the closing }):

    "terminal.integrated.rightClickBehavior": "default",

    Alternatively, use the settings GUI (press Ctrl+,):

    right-click behavior setting

    Note:

    • The screenshot was taken on macOS, where selectWord is the default setting; on Windows, it is copyPaste, with the behavior as described above.

    • Also note the GUI's convenient search feature: typing right click in the search field was sufficient to locate the relevant setting.