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PastePrimarySelection

X11: Paste the Primary Selection to the current tab. On other systems, this behaves identically to Paste.

Since: Version 20210203-095643-70a364eb

The functionality described in this section requires version 20210203-095643-70a364eb of wezterm, or a more recent version.

This action is considered to be deprecated and will be removed in a future release; please use PasteFrom instead.

Since: Version 20230320-124340-559cb7b0

The functionality described in this section requires version 20230320-124340-559cb7b0 of wezterm, or a more recent version.

This action has been removed. Please use PasteFrom instead.

Example

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'
local act = wezterm.action

config.keys = {
  { key = 'v', mods = 'SHIFT|CTRL', action = act.PastePrimarySelection },
}

-- Middle mouse button pastes the primary selection.
config.mouse_bindings = {
  {
    event = { Up = { streak = 1, button = 'Middle' } },
    mods = 'NONE',
    action = act.PastePrimarySelection,
  },
}