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Offline JunkYard

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copy and pasting files with emelfm
« on: June 25, 2026, 09:01:33 PM »
Greetings!

So I load emelfm up. then load my drive up I want. find the file I want. right click and can not see a copy option. then press ctrl+c. Then I go to the other drive that I want to paste and press ctrl+paste and nothing happens!

Any help please?
Thanks
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Offline Rich

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2026, 09:17:03 PM »
Hi JunkYard
Quote from: JunkYard on June 25, 2026, 09:01:33 PM
... press ctrl+paste ...
I'm not familiar with  "ctrl+paste". When I want to paste, I
use Ctrl-V.
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Offline Juanito

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2026, 02:38:28 AM »
..but emelfm is a two pane file manager - if you have one pane set to the source directory and the other pane set to the destination directory, you can highlight the file and click on the copy button.
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Offline JunkYard

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2026, 04:02:30 PM »
Quote from: Rich on June 25, 2026, 09:17:03 PM
Hi JunkYard
Quote from: JunkYard on June 25, 2026, 09:01:33 PM
... press ctrl+paste ...
I'm not familiar with  "ctrl+paste". When I want to paste, I
use Ctrl-V.

If ctrl and V is the code for paste then what is the code for copy please?
So the short cut keys are different to windows. Is there somewhere I can get a list for this pacific distro?. As it would appear that every distro is different
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Offline JunkYard

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2026, 04:04:54 PM »
Quote from: Juanito on June 26, 2026, 02:38:28 AM
..but emelfm is a two pane file manager - if you have one pane set to the source directory and the other pane set to the destination directory, you can highlight the file and click on the copy button.

I noticed it had 2 search term windows. one on the left and one on the right? so you are saying set the left as drive to copy from and right to to paste to

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Offline JunkYard

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2026, 04:07:59 PM »
Quote from: JunkYard on June 25, 2026, 09:01:33 PM
Greetings!

So I load emelfm up. then load my drive up I want. find the file I want. right click and can not see a copy option. then press ctrl+c. Then I go to the other drive that I want to paste and press ctrl+paste and nothing happens!

Any help please?
Thanks

Sorry it was a typo
i ment ctrl+p. did not seam to work
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Offline Juanito

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2026, 04:31:59 PM »
Quote from: JunkYard on June 26, 2026, 04:04:54 PM
I noticed it had 2 search term windows. one on the left and one on the right? so you are saying set the left as drive to copy from and right to to paste to
Affirmative

Vice versa will also work
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Offline Rich

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Re: copy and pasting files with emelfm
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2026, 04:39:33 PM »
Hi JunkYard
Ctrl-C  Copies what is highlighted.
Ctrl-V  Pastes what you copied.

These control codes have existed as long as I can remember.
I even used them back when I used to use Windows.
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