I have a problem when I try to paste to export of a configuration of one MikTik to another.
When I have
add address=10.128.60.58 client-id=1:bc:8c:cd:b7:30:cd mac
BC:8C:CD:B7:30:CD server=dhcp1
in /ip dhcp-server lease
the terminal of the winbox autocompletes the commands beginning from the first letter :
the above results in
add dd address=10.128.60.58 client-id=1:bc:8c:cd:b7:30:cd mac
BC:8C:CD:B7:30:CD server=dhcp1
and gives an error
Trying
a address=10.128.60.58 client-id=1:bc:8c:cd:b7:30:cd mac
BC:8C:CD:B7:30:CD server=dhcp1
results in
add addressddress=10.128.60.58 client-id=1:bc:8c:cd:b7:30:cd mac
BC:8C:CD:B7:30:CD server=dhcp1
I do not know from which release this behaviour startet.
I first saw it in 6.25.
Copying a complete configuration will get kind of exhausting with that.
You must be somehow accidentally engaging HotLock mode: see this page of the manual on the wiki.
If you are not hitting Ctrl-V yourself, perhaps the same ASCII value that Ctrl-V would generate has somehow made it into the script or config that you are copying into the terminal.
If you are copying directly from one MikroTik console/terminal to another, rather than pasting it directly into the other terminal, try to first paste it into an intermediate destination, such as a text editor (Notepad? TextEdit in Plain Text mode? vi in some other console?), and then re-copying it from that. I have found that some of the ANSI terminal control characters that influence the formatting and coloring of the text in a RouterOS console can get captured into the clipboard buffer, and can cause trouble when being pasted into another RouterOS console. Pasting the clipboard into another place and re-copying it can effectively filter out those rogue bytes.
Alternatively, if you log into RouterOS by suffixing a “+tc” to the end of the username (e.g., “admin+tc”), this will disable the funky color and terminal auto-detection characters from being generated, which may make copying-and-pasting between terminals work much more smoothly; see this section of the manual (console login process) for more information.
Ah, yes. Ctrl-V is the keyboard shortcut for Paste in Windows. I have absent-mindedly tried to paste into Winbox using Ctrl-V many, many times, which is why I am so well acquainted with HotLock.
You have never been able to paste into a Winbox terminal using Ctrl-V; you must right-click and hit ‘Paste’ in the pop-up menu. This is not a new thing as of 6.25.