Paste

[csprance]

Any chance of being able to paste things in with Ctrl+V?

Where would be a good spot to start looking to integrate that?

[astralarya]

There is already a function that implements a listener for the browser's paste event: https://github.com/autochthe/react-console/blob/0d5d0834b2131cc86f1fa6342fe3d52130c636ad/src/react-console.tsx#L436-L450

This gets a little complicated by the fact that Ctrl+V means something very different in Readline (quoted-insert). This is how you can paste things like ^V (the Ctrl+V terminal control code). This is not a problem on OSX, since you use Cmd+V to paste. I guess the question is, are you asking about implementing quoted-insert or the browser paste event. If you are asking about the browser paste, it should be working already, if not let me know which operating system / browser combinations this is failing on.

If you are talking about quoted-insert, I'm not exactly sure how to proceed, however there is a TODO skeleton here: https://github.com/autochthe/react-console/blob/0d5d0834b2131cc86f1fa6342fe3d52130c636ad/src/react-console.tsx#L263-L266
It would require some sort of state handling, similar to the reverse-i search.

[csprance]

I'm talking about the browser paste event. It doesn't seem to be working on windows.
I can reproduce the non pasting on the demo as well. I tested in chrome, edge and firefox

[astralarya]

Ok, this appears to be a windows specific problem. The thing is, I'm not sure that this is going to be solved in the way that you desire because GNU Readline, which this clones, already uses Ctrl-V as the quoted-insert action. You can currently paste in Windows Edge by right clicking on the console and selecting paste. This may actually be the correct solution and behavior, but I would understand if that's not exactly what you want. However, Readline and its implementation is widely accepted by most programmers, and deviating from its implementation comes with its own set of problems.

[csprance]

is there some sort of onFocus method I can hook in to so I can override any of the hotkeys if the console is focused and remove those on blur?

[astralarya]

Remapping of hotkeys is planned but as of right now it is not yet implemented.

[astralarya]

The current plan is to eventually allow passing a map of keys to Readline functions via props. In this case you could eventually pass something like keymap={{'C-v': null}} to disable the quoted-insert action.

This is unfortunately a ways off, however. In the meantime, I can only recommend the right click menu paste. If I remember correctly, this is the way that the native Windows Command Prompt handles paste.