Copy, Paste & Find

Copy and paste in the NetStacks terminal: multi-line paste review, CLI-flavor paste presets, raw paste, clipboard history, and searching the scrollback.

Copying

Select text and press ⌘⇧C / Ctrl+Shift+C, or Ctrl+Insert, or right-click → Copy.
Ctrl+C is never copy in the terminal; it sends an interrupt to the device.
To copy as soon as you select (SecureCRT-style), turn on Copy on Select in Settings → General → Terminal. It is off by default.

Pasting

Method	Behavior
`⌘V` / `Ctrl+V`, `Shift+Insert`, right-click → Paste	Smart paste: applies the paste preset for the session's CLI flavor and opens the review dialog for multi-line text.
Middle-click	Pastes the clipboard (setting Middle-Click Paste, on by default). Ignored while a full-screen program such as vim or htop is using the mouse.
`⌘⇧V` / `Ctrl+Shift+V`	Paste Passthrough: sends the clipboard exactly as is, with no preset and no dialog.

Right-clicking never pastes; it always opens the menu.

Paste Review for Multi-Line Pastes

When you paste two or more lines, NetStacks opens a review dialog titled Paste into <target> before anything is sent:

The left pane shows your clipboard text, which you can edit (with a revert link).
The right pane, Will paste, shows exactly what the device will receive after the preset runs, with carriage returns, tabs and trailing spaces made visible and the preset's changes highlighted.
The Preset drop-down lets you pick a different preset for this paste.
Click Paste N lines (or press ⌘↩ / Ctrl+Enter) to send, or Cancel.

Open the dialog on demand from the command palette with Clipboard: Paste with preview…. The line threshold is set in Settings → Clipboard.

Paste Presets by CLI Flavor

Each session's CLI Flavor picks a preset that cleans up text before it is sent:

Preset	Used for	Steps
IOS clean paste	Cisco IOS/IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, Arista EOS	Normalize line endings, strip trailing whitespace, collapse blank lines, strip comment lines
Junos set-mode	Juniper Junos	Normalize line endings, strip trailing whitespace, clean up `display set` output
PAN-OS	Palo Alto PAN-OS, Fortinet FortiOS	Normalize line endings, strip trailing whitespace
Linux shell	Linux/Unix Shell	Normalize line endings
Raw	Auto-detect (and any session without a flavor)	No changes

Presets can be edited in Settings → Clipboard. Other available steps include Tabs to spaces, Remove common indentation and Strip prompts and echoed commands. Use the Restore button to bring back the built-in presets.

Clipboard History

Everything you copy inside NetStacks is kept in Clipboard History, with the device and session it came from. Open it with ⌘⇧H / Ctrl+Shift+H, the clipboard button in the desktop title bar, or the palette command Clipboard: History….

Search by text, device, session or source; click ★ Pinned to show only pinned clips.
Per clip: pin (pinned clips never expire), preview, copy, delete.
Enter pastes the selected clip into the terminal, Ctrl+Enter copies it, Del removes it.
Text copied in other applications is only added when you run Clipboard: Import from OS clipboard.

Standalone vs. enterprise

In the standalone app, history is saved on your computer and recognisable credentials are scrubbed from stored clips (marked with a lock). In enterprise mode and the web terminal, history is kept in memory for the current window only.

Clipboard Settings

Settings, Clipboard tab with advanced paste, multi-line confirmation, presets and history options

Setting	Default
Enable advanced paste (master switch for presets and review)	On
Confirm multi-line pastes	On
Confirm when the paste has at least N lines	2 (1–1000)
Apply the flavor's preset on paste	On
Record copies in history	On
Keep unpinned clips for	24 hours (1–720)
Maximum unpinned clips	500 (10–5000)

Find in Scrollback

Press ⌘F / Ctrl+F in a terminal (or Edit → Find…). A bar labelled Find in terminal... appears at the top of the terminal and searches the whole scrollback, highlighting matches.

The counter shows X of N or No results.
Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter to the previous, Esc closes the bar.
Aa turns on Match case; the regex button turns on Use regular expression.

How far back you can search depends on the session's Scrollback Lines (10000 for saved sessions; 1000 for local shells and Controller sessions).