Keyboard shortcut to paste clipboard content into command prompt window (Win XP) [closed]

Answer 1

Instead of "right click"....start your session (once you're in the command prompt window) by keying Alt/SpaceBar. That will open the Command Prompt window menu and you'll see your familiar, underlined keyboard command shortcuts, just like in Windows GUI.

Good luck!

Answer 2

A simpler way is to use windows powershell instead of cmd. itworks fine with texter.

Answer 3

I've recently found that command prompt has support for context menu via the right mouse click. You can find more details here: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/copy_paste_within_microsoft_windows_command_prompt.html

Answer 4

I followed @PabloG's steps as follows

1. goto http://www.autohotkey.com/ - download autohotkey
2. follow simple installation steps
3. after installation create new *.ahk file as follows right click on desktop > new > Autohotkey Script > giveAnyFileName.ahk
4. right click on this file > Edit
5. copy paste autohotkey script given by @PabloG in his answer
6. save and close
7. double click on file to run
8. Done now you should be able to use Ctrl+v for paste in command prompt

Answer 5

You could try using Texter and create something unlikely like:

./p , triggered by space and replacing the text with %c

I just tested it and it works fine. The only gotcha is to use a rare sequence, as Texter cannot restrict this to just cmd.

There are probably other utilities of this kind which could work, and even AutoHotKey, upon which Texter is built could do it better, but Texter is easy :-)

Answer 6

Thanks, Pablo, for referring to AutoHotkey utility. Since I have Launchy installed which uses Alt+Space I had to modify it a but to add Shift key as shown:

; Paste in command window
^V::
; Spanish menu (Editar->Pegar, I suppose English version is the same, Edit->Paste)
Send !+{Space}ep
return