In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V is not working

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Ishwar Chandra Tiwari picture Ishwar Chandra Tiwari · Jul 25, 2018 · Viewed 23.3k times · Source

In Visual Studio Code Ctrl+V is not working on editor.

However from the command palette Ctrl+Shift+V is working.

Answer

WebD picture WebD · Jul 25, 2018

Open the keyboard shortcuts preferences by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + P and search for open keyboard shortcuts file.

Then, search for the editor.action.clipboardPasteAction property. In your case, it might be CTRL+SHIFT+V. Try changing it to Ctrl + V. Like so:

Hope it helps :)

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