Issues with Pasting multi line text

[iuli4n]

What happened?

Three issues so far (on windows powershell).

Let's say I have the following lines of text that are copied to the clipboard.
LINE1
LINE2
LINE3

Issues when I try to paste these using right-click:

1. If I paste them to the CLI, the lines will be concatenated together without newlines separating them (the newlines are removed and the result is LINE1LINE2LINE3).

2. If I first type something into the CLI (ex: "read back the following:"), then use ctrl+enter to go to a new line, and then paste the lines, the CLI actually executes the first line multiple times (one time for each line pasted):
   read back the following:
   read back the following:
   read back the following:
   read back the following:

3. Ctrl+V doesn't work to paste in windows, only right-click. But outside of gemini, Ctrl+V works fine in powershell.

The solution for me is to push CTRL+X twice so that I edit the cli text buffer, and there i can put my lines.

What did you expect to happen?

For each:

1. I expected the CLI text box to contain:
   LINE1
   LINE2
   LINE3

2. I expected the CLI text box to contain the following and not execute.
   read back the following:
   LINE1
   LINE2
   LINE3

3. I expected paste to work with CTRL+V (just like it does for other powershell programs, especially since CTRL+C works in the cli)

Client information

Client Information

Run gemini to enter the interactive CLI, then run the /about command.

> /about
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                         │
│ About Gemini CLI                                        │
│                                                         │
│ CLI Version        0.14.0                               │
│ Git Commit         230056cc                             │
│ Model              auto                                 │
│ Sandbox            no sandbox                           │
│ OS                 win32                                │
│ Auth Method        OAuth                                │
│                                                         │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Login information

google account

Anything else we need to know?

I searched github issues but couldn't find an open bug related to this.

[gemini-cli]

Found possible duplicate issues:

• Gemini CLI on Windows: Pasting multi-paragraph text after initial input duplicates existing text and loses pasted content #10491
• Copy paste multiple lines triggers issues #3005
• paste is broken #7388
• bug while pasting ( windows) #11206
• Right-Click paste and Keyboard shortcuts are incosistent and often do not work in the gemini CLI input field. Often nothing happens or right click operates as " ënter" which sends the incomplete chat. CTRL Shift + V and CTRL V also do not work. #4788
• Paste bug #7773
• Multiline paste does not preserve new lines on Windows #8288
• Multiline paste in CLI duplicates current prompt and ignores intermediate lines #7941
• no permite pegado multilínea #7863
• Copy/pasting errors with carriage returns on Windows in Gemini CLI inside Cursor is causing every carriage return to trigger a seperate prompt #3763

If you believe this is not a duplicate, please remove the status/possible-duplicate label.

[iuli4n]

Oh sorry I think this is a duplicate of #7941 and #8288 for issues 1 and 2.
For issue 3, please feature request the ability to use CTRL+V

PS: For anyone wondering, the solution I have now is to push CTRL+X twice in order to open notepad for editing the cli text buffer directly

[scidomino]

To diagnose ctrl+v paste issues we need to see what the GCLI is being sent through std in and what keypresses it's generating. To log this go to /settings and set Debug Keystroke logging to true and then restart. The logging will go to the debug console which you can open with f12. The logging is very noisy so I suggest restarting after you enable the settings, hit f12 and then immediately attempt to ctrl+v paste. Then send me a screenshot of the log messages.

For a working paste you should see something like:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Debug Console (F12 to close)                                                                     │
│                                                                                                  │
│ ℹ [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: "\u001b[I"                                                                  │
│ ℹ Authenticated via "gemini-api-key".                                                            │
│ ℹ [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: "\u001b[24~"                                                                │
│ ℹ[DEBUG] Keystroke:                                                                              │
│  {"name":"f12","ctrl":false,"meta":false,"shift":false,"paste":false,"insertable":false,"sequenc │
│  e":"\u001b[24~"}                                                                                │
│ ℹ [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: "\u001b[200~"                                                               │
│ ℹ [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\u001b[201~"                    │
│ ℹ[DEBUG] Keystroke:                                                                              │
│  {"name":"","ctrl":false,"meta":false,"shift":false,"paste":true,"insertable":true,"sequence":"T │
│  he quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"}                                                    │
│ ℹ [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: "\u001b[115;5u"                                                             │
│ ℹ[DEBUG] Keystroke:                                                                              │
│  {"name":"s","ctrl":true,"meta":false,"shift":false,"paste":false,"insertable":false,"sequence": │
│  "\u001b[115;5u"}                                                                                │
│                                                                                                  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The thing that we need is specifically the [DEBUG] Raw StdIn: lines. So scroll to those if you have to.

[iuli4n]

@scidomino
Hmm Gemini CLI has autoupdated (to v. 0.15.3) and now I can't replicate because

• I can't paste anything using Right-click or CTRL+V (in powershell).
• I also can't copy anything (I can't select anymore in powershell).

[scidomino]

Try the latest version at head once #13234 is merged. (and by head I mean to run npx https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)

Selecting has been temporarily broken in the latest version but we are working on it. in the meantime use ctrl+s to temporarly put yourself in select/copy mode.