I usually use Shift+Ins to paste text, but when I try it in the terminal window, an error message pops up: http://i.imgur.com/C1ysG.png I looked everywhere, but there is no other assignment and in the normal text window I can paste successfully. After disabling Shift+Ins globally in the system settings, pasting with Shift+Ins works in the terminal window, but, as expected, doesn't work anywhere else. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open Kate 2. copy text 3. open terminal window and click into it 4. press Shift+Ins Actual Results: An error message pops up: The key sequence 'Shift+Ins' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts' from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity. No action will be triggered Expected Results: paste the copied text
I confirm this. Arch Linux 64-bit Kate 16.04.2 KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 Qt 5.6.1 xcb wm
This is also happening in Kate 17.04.2. In addition to Shift+Ins, Ctrl+Shift+V also returns an ambiguous shortcut pop-up window. These are pretty much universal paste shortcuts and none of them work in the Kate terminal emulator. I'm surprised this has received zero attention in almost 5 years.
The terminal widget in Kate is provided by konsole kpart, so the shortcut conflicts you see here are between the ones defined in katepart and the ones konsole part. Ctrl+Shift+V: kate, switch to next input mode konsole, paste Shift+Ins: kate: paste konsole: paste FTR, Konsole kpart doesn't support changing the default konosle shortcuts.
I think this can't be fixed by us. Unfortunately shortcut conflicts between the different parts can happen. There is there alternate CTRL-SHIFT-V variant that works. WORSFORME might not the best resolution, but the others looked strange, too.