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fix(tui): improve macOS paste and shortcut parity
- support Cmd-as-super and readline-style fallback shortcuts on macOS - add layered clipboard/OSC52 paste handling and immediate image-path attach - add IDE terminal setup helpers, terminal parity hints, and aligned docs
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### `/paste` Command
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**The most reliable method. Works everywhere.**
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**The most reliable explicit image-attach fallback.**
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```
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/paste
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```
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Type `/paste` and press Enter. Hermes checks your clipboard for an image and attaches it. This works in every environment because it explicitly calls the clipboard backend — no terminal keybinding interception to worry about.
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Type `/paste` and press Enter. Hermes checks your clipboard for an image and attaches it. This is the safest option when your terminal rewrites `Cmd+V`/`Ctrl+V`, or when you copied only an image and there is no bracketed-paste text payload to inspect.
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### Ctrl+V / Cmd+V (Bracketed Paste)
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### Ctrl+V / Cmd+V
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When you paste text that's on the clipboard alongside an image, Hermes automatically checks for an image too. This works when:
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- Your clipboard contains **both text and an image** (some apps put both on the clipboard when you copy)
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- Your terminal supports bracketed paste (most modern terminals do)
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Hermes now treats paste as a layered flow:
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- normal text paste first
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- native clipboard / OSC52 text fallback if the terminal did not deliver text cleanly
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- image attach when the clipboard or pasted payload resolves to an image or image path
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This means pasted macOS screenshot temp paths and `file://...` image URIs can attach immediately instead of sitting in the composer as raw text.
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:::warning
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If your clipboard has **only an image** (no text), Ctrl+V does nothing in most terminals. Terminals can only paste text — there's no standard mechanism to paste binary image data. Use `/paste` or Alt+V instead.
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If your clipboard has **only an image** (no text), terminals still cannot send binary image bytes directly. Use `/paste` as the explicit image-attach fallback.
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### Alt+V
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### `/terminal-setup` for VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf
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Alt key combinations pass through most terminal emulators (they're sent as ESC + key rather than being intercepted). Press `Alt+V` to check the clipboard for an image.
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If you run the TUI inside a local VS Code-family integrated terminal on macOS, Hermes can install the recommended `workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence` bindings for better multiline and undo/redo parity:
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:::caution
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**Does not work in VSCode's integrated terminal.** VSCode intercepts many Alt+key combos for its own UI. Use `/paste` instead.
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:::
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```text
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/terminal-setup
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```
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### Ctrl+V (Raw — Linux Only)
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On Linux desktop terminals (GNOME Terminal, Konsole, Alacritty, etc.), `Ctrl+V` is **not** the paste shortcut — `Ctrl+Shift+V` is. So `Ctrl+V` sends a raw byte to the application, and Hermes catches it to check the clipboard. This only works on Linux desktop terminals with X11 or Wayland clipboard access.
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This is especially useful when `Cmd+Enter`, `Cmd+Z`, or `Shift+Cmd+Z` are being intercepted by the IDE. Run it on the local machine only — not inside an SSH session.
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## Platform Compatibility
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| Environment | `/paste` | Ctrl+V text+image | Alt+V | Notes |
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| Environment | `/paste` | Cmd/Ctrl+V | `/terminal-setup` | Notes |
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| **macOS Terminal / iTerm2** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Best experience — `osascript` always available |
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| **Linux X11 desktop** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Requires `xclip` (`apt install xclip`) |
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| **Linux Wayland desktop** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Requires `wl-paste` (`apt install wl-clipboard`) |
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| **WSL2 (Windows Terminal)** | ✅ | ✅¹ | ✅ | Uses `powershell.exe` — no extra install needed |
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| **VSCode Terminal (local)** | ✅ | ✅¹ | ❌ | VSCode intercepts Alt+key |
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| **VSCode Terminal (SSH)** | ❌² | ❌² | ❌ | Remote clipboard not accessible |
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| **SSH terminal (any)** | ❌² | ❌² | ❌² | Remote clipboard not accessible |
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| **macOS Terminal / iTerm2** | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | Best experience — native clipboard + screenshot-path recovery |
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| **Apple Terminal** | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | If Cmd+←/→/⌫ gets rewritten, use Ctrl+A / Ctrl+E / Ctrl+U fallbacks |
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| **Linux X11 desktop** | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | Requires `xclip` (`apt install xclip`) |
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| **Linux Wayland desktop** | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | Requires `wl-paste` (`apt install wl-clipboard`) |
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| **WSL2 (Windows Terminal)** | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | Uses `powershell.exe` — no extra install needed |
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| **VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf (local)** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Recommended for better Cmd+Enter / undo / redo parity |
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| **VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf (SSH)** | ❌² | ❌² | ❌³ | Run `/terminal-setup` on the local machine instead |
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| **SSH terminal (any)** | ❌² | ❌² | n/a | Remote clipboard not accessible |
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¹ Only when clipboard has both text and an image (image-only clipboard = nothing happens)
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² See [SSH & Remote Sessions](#ssh--remote-sessions) below
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³ The command writes local IDE keybindings and should not be run from the remote host
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## Platform-Specific Setup
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## SSH & Remote Sessions
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**Clipboard paste does not work over SSH.** When you SSH into a remote machine, the Hermes CLI runs on the remote host. All clipboard tools (`xclip`, `wl-paste`, `powershell.exe`, `osascript`) read the clipboard of the machine they run on — which is the remote server, not your local machine. Your local clipboard is inaccessible from the remote side.
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**Clipboard image paste does not fully work over SSH.** When you SSH into a remote machine, the Hermes CLI runs on the remote host. Clipboard tools (`xclip`, `wl-paste`, `powershell.exe`, `osascript`) read the clipboard of the machine they run on — which is the remote server, not your local machine. Your local clipboard image is therefore inaccessible from the remote side.
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Text can sometimes still bridge through terminal paste or OSC52, but image clipboard access and local screenshot temp paths remain tied to the machine running Hermes.
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### Workarounds for SSH
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