Intro

When trying to paste multilne text in Windows Terminal, you might get following warning message

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When you hit Paste anyway, terminal will accually execute your clipboard content line by line, and that won’t produce what we want in most cases.

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Solution

The solution is really simple. Open up the settings

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and in bottom left corner click Open JSON file.

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In settings json find actions property and comment out the paste command:

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Save the settings.json and now you can paste multiline text into Windows Terminal.

Last modified: June 29, 2023
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