How to paste from the clipboard into the terminal

[sidouglas]

Similar Q: #3081

I apologise for the basic question, but all I want to perform is to paste contents of my clipboard into the terminal without fzf being triggered.

• fzf --version 0.54.3 (brew)
• zsh on M2 mac 14.5 (23F79)
• zsh 5.9 (arm-apple-darwin22.1.0)
  config:

echo 'fzf loaded';

# Set up fzf key bindings and fuzzy completion
source <(fzf --zsh)

# Auto-completion
# ---------------
[[ $- == *i* ]] && source "/opt/homebrew/opt/fzf/shell/completion.zsh" 2> /dev/null
export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='--multi --no-height --extended'
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='rg --hidden --files -g "!.git" -g "!node_modules/*" -g "node_modules"'
# CTRL-Y to copy the command into clipboard using pbcopy
export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="
  --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {2..} | pbcopy)+abort'
  --color header:italic
  --header 'Press CTRL-Y to copy command into clipboard'"

allowmetopaste.mp4

• I have to hit esc (⎋ twice) in order to cancel fzf and perform a simple paste from clipboard.

[LangLangBart]

• I have to hit esc (⎋ twice) in order to cancel fzf and perform a simple paste from clipboard.

I can't reproduce it so far. When you run the following commands, is the issue still observable?

# minimal zsh setup
command env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM USER=$USER PATH=$PATH SHELL=zsh zsh --no-rcs

# fzf setup
source <(fzf --zsh)
export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='--multi --no-height --extended'
export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="--bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {2..} | pbcopy)+abort'"

# Press ctrl-r
# Press ctrl-y to copy a command
# Press Esc once

If the issue is no longer observable, it is very likely an issue with your shell setup, likely a plugin¹. Try to disable some plugins/options until you find the one causing the mischief.

Footnotes

1. dotfiles/zshrc · sidouglas/dotfiles · GitHub ↩

[sidouglas]

Thank you. It was my alias fc — that's reserved. In the end I used another alias.

[LangLangBart]

If it's working correctly now, that's good, but the answer is unexpected. The expansion of aliases should be fixed with the no_aliases option set in the fzf-history-widget, and parsing should also disable alias expansion when sourcing the function since #1944 and #3794.

fzf/shell/key-bindings.zsh

Lines 107 to 111 in 4e85f72

	# CTRL-R - Paste the selected command from history into the command line
	fzf-history-widget() {
	local selected
	setopt localoptions noglobsubst noposixbuiltins pipefail no_aliases noglob nobash_rematch 2> /dev/null
	# Ensure the associative history array, which maps event numbers to the full