# ctrl-v doesn't seem to do anything in Nomadnet?

_General · started by Necom on Sat, Oct 3, 2026 9:11 AM_

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## Original post

**Necom** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 9:11 AM

When typing an lxmf message in nomadnet it says [C-v] Delivery, but when I hit ctrl-v nothing happens? I would assume it either changes the delivery method by just cycling through all of the methods or opens some kind of dialog box to let me choose but it doesn't open anything, and no matter how many times I hit ctrl-v it always uses the same delivery method?

What is it actually supposed to do?

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## Reply 1

**Zenith** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 9:35 AM

It will cycle through the delivery options that's shown up at the top here:
![image.png](/storage/forum/TXQdnKeQUJ9nlGp3NB7WtHD6BjkDMNARbhgZHODy.png)

Or is that the part thats not working?

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## Reply 2

**Necom** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 9:46 AM

Can’t believe I never noticed that before! It seems to only work if I hit ctrl-v twice. And when it says Link at the top, the message details says Opportunistic.

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## Reply 3

**Necom** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 9:49 AM

Oh and also ctrl-v isn't listed in the keyboard shortcuts in the guide

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## Reply 4

**NONGKHAEM_BKK_TH** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 2:55 PM

**Necom** wrote:
> Can’t believe I never noticed that before! It seems to only work if I hit ctrl-v twice. And when it says Link at the top, the message details says Opportunistic.

mmm. I'm on OSX, 1.4.4, over kitty (not that it matters) and ctrl+v cycles between options and ctrl+d sends correctly according to which option was chosen. Actually i was surprised to see it establishing a link in the rnsd logs when the message was small enough to fit in the MTU envelop (i was under the impression it should have defaulted to opportunistic), so I learned something today :)

But yeah it works. What doesn't work with yours?

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## Reply 5

**b1LL** · Sat, Oct 3, 2026 4:25 PM

**NONGKHAEM_BKK_TH** wrote:

> mmm. I'm on OSX, 1.4.4 

rns really does run on vintage hardware apparently!

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## Reply 6

**Rudi Mentaire** · Mon, Oct 5, 2026 9:01 AM

Necom:
> And when it says Link at the top, the message details says Opportunistic.

Confirmed, looks like a bug. Do these two values actually behave differently?

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## Reply 7

**Necom** · Mon, Oct 5, 2026 9:33 AM

The number of entries in the link table stay the same before and after hitting ctrl-d, so I think it’s just sending the message in a single packet rather than over a link regardless of if it is set to Link or Opportunistic. In other words no, there doesn’t seem to be a difference in behaviour.

edit: It seems to send it over a link if the message is big enough, regardless of if it is set to Link or Opportunistic.

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