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    Vim System Clipboard Support

WSL vim


https://superuser.com/questions/1291425/windows-subsystem-linux-make-vim-use-the-clipboard


Install VcXsrv (if it starts after installing, stop it).


Start it using the newly installed program XLaunch (search in the start
menu).


Go with all the defaults options, and ensure the clipboard options are
checked.


At the end, save the configuration to a file, config.xlaunch (use that to
start it from now on).


Put export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in your .bashrc in bash for Windows and run
source ~/.bashrc in any open terminal.


Ensure vim is installed using clipboard support. vim --version | grep
clipboard should say +clipboard, not -clipboard. Also if you run the ex
command :echo has('clipboard') in vim and it says 0 it does not have
clipboard support compiled in.


If you don’t have clipboard support, install a vim package compiled with
clipboard support, e.g. apt-get install vim-gtk or sudo dnf install vim-X11


As a bonus you should now be able to copy from and to your Windows clipboard
from a remote machine by using SSH X forwarding (ssh -X … ). You can use
xclip on the remote machine or if you use vim there you will again need to make
sure the clipboard option is compiled into vim (e.g. install vim-gtk). You can
probably also configure PuTTY to use your local X server in case you prefer
using that for remote connections.


And for OSX: https://gist.github.com/romainl/96180b5b8e7722a7428c


System Clipboard Vim within TMUX within SSH session


Note


didn’t try it myself, yet.


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45247929/system-clipboard-vim-within-tmux-within-ssh-session/45257319#45257319


SSH X forwarding


On your remote system, install a clipboard-aware Vim (and the X dependencies needed for clipboard support):


$ sudo apt-get install vim-gtk


On your local system, start your ssh session with X11 forwarding enabled:


$ ssh -X user@hostname


See $ man ssh for the security implications of X11 forwarding.


Terminal with OSC support

Clipboard integration feature (PASTE64/OSC52) is helpful if your terminal
emulator supports it. For example, iTerm2 supports it (I am not sure about
Ubuntu).


Add this function to your "remote" .vimrc. yank something and run :OscCopy. It
works even it is inside tmux session.


function! OscCopy()
  let encodedText=@"
  let encodedText=substitute(encodedText, '\', '\\\\', "g")
  let encodedText=substitute(encodedText, "'", "'\\\\''", "g")
  let executeCmd="echo -n '".encodedText."' | base64 | tr -d '\\n'"
  let encodedText=system(executeCmd)
  if $TMUX != ""
    "tmux
    let executeCmd='echo -en "\x1bPtmux;\x1b\x1b]52;;'.encodedText.'\x1b\x1b\\\\\x1b\\" > /dev/tty'
  else
    let executeCmd='echo -en "\x1b]52;;'.encodedText.'\x1b\\" > /dev/tty'
  endif
  call system(executeCmd)
  redraw!
endfunction
command! OscCopy :call OscCopy()


Note


There is a plugin: https://github.com/greymd/oscyank.vim


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