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Windows Terminal messing with VIM blockwise visual mode

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Windows terminal has been released for a while and its available in the Microsoft Store. I installed it on my laptop to test its ssh client support and I am pretty happy with it until I found that I couldn't use the blockwise visual mode shortcut "CTRL-v" from VIM since this shortcut will behave as a Windows paste. To resolve this issue I had to change the keybindings inside the settings menu. Once you click on the settings button, you will open the settings.json file via notepad Editing this file will allow you to create custom keybindings or remove them all toghether. You can remove the entry by inserting a "//" in the beggining of the entry like so: //{ "command": {"action": "copy", "singleLine": false }, "keys": "ctrl+c" }, //{ "command": "paste", "keys": "ctrl+v" }, Now I can enjoying using vim again! \0/