Command+Shift+V doesn't paste what is expeceted

[steren]

Context

• Command+Shift+V is typically used to paste without formatting.
• Command+V is used to paste with formatting.

When I use ghostty, I tend to do Command+Shift+V.

Observed:

The content pasted when pressing Command+Shift+V often differs from pressing Command+V. It seems like old copied content.

Suggestion:

Command+Shift+V should behave the same as Command+V

[rhodes-b]

The differing behavior is that one is pasting the system clipboard and one is pasting the selection clipboard
https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#paste_from_clipboard

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/src/config/Config.zig#L6287-L6292
as you can see command+shift+v is used to match Terminal.app Im not a macos user but I would highly argue that Terminal.app functionality should be preferred to other apps.

while normal is to paste the normal contents
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/src/config/Config.zig#L5694-L5698

You can always override that its either always the selection clipboard or always the system clipboard yourself for both copy and paste

Im not sure what "formatting" you mean there isn't formatting to save or not when pasting to a terminal like the font used (I would assume this would never happen), or the style like bold or italics (maybe this makes sense I would imagine it doesn't but theoretically it could)

[steren]

Feel free to close as Working as Intended.

I mainly wanted to convey that Command+Shift+V didn't behave the way I expected it.
It is the first time I observe a difference in content between Command+Shift+V and Command+V.

the behavior I describe is how Google Docs or Chrome handle Command+Shift+V and Command+V.

[rhodes-b]

How a terminal works is fundamentally quite different compared to Google docs or Chrome.

For example terminals do not support using different fonts for the same symbol you can generally override symbols or provide another font for missing symbols. This means when you paste a specific symbol its always associated with a specific font your terminal already has loaded for that symbol, there is no formatting information to save on the font used in the original text.

Terminals also do not support different sized text across the terminal so that is also information that is not going to be kept from the original formatting (note kitty did recently add a variable sized text protocol https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/text-sizing-protocol/ This is very new and I don't believe any other terminal supports it)

Like i stated previously the only ones that possibly make sense is bold italics and a few others. As far as im aware no other terminal supports keeping that formatting either from pasted in text but im 100% sure as I have not used that many extensively.

Many people expect similar apps to work in similar ways. Since Terminal.app which is the default terminal for macos has the selection paste behavior above I'd say that should always be the default behavior as that is also a terminal its not a web browser and its not document editor if ghostty was one of those apps their behavior would make more sense.

I hope the information I gave you above about the docs can help you fix the "old" text pasting behavior that way ghostty wont copy / paste from its internal selection clipboard instead always use the system clipboard

[steren]

To be clear, my issue is:

Steps:

• Command+V on a text (unstyled or not, it doesn't matter)
• Command+Shift+V In ghostty

Expected:

• The selected text is pasted unstyled

Observed

• Some unexpecetd other text is pasted