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Yank: Yank Terminal Output to Clipboard

88 points by polm23 6y ago

skywal_l 6y ago
Back in the day, on the Amstrad CPC, there was a way to duplicate the cursor, move the duplicate around on any part of the screen and copy any text below the duplicate to where the actual cursor was. I always thought that this simple but powerful feature was missing on modern computers. The submission is not equivalent but clearly can help avoid having to move your mouse around. Still wish I didn't have to modify the original command as, very often, I realize that I want to copy the command's output after I execute it.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
  In iterm2, with shell integration enabled, hitting Command-Shift-A selects all the output since the last prompt.
- sime2009 6y ago
  I built some of those kinds of cursors features into my terminal. http://extraterm.org/features.html http://extraterm.org/features.html It is never too late to steal features that the Commodore 64 could do in the early 80s (!!!). oh, Extraterm can help you reuse previous output after the fact and without having to be clairvoyant.
- IronBacon 6y ago
  > I realize that I want to copy the command's output after I execute it. With Zsh, cheating a little, you can achieve it with: _insert-last-command-output () { LBUFFER+="$(LS_COLORS= TERM=vt220 eval $history[$((HISTCMD-1))])" } There's some junk used for my configuration, the relevant part is the "eval" of the last command on the history, it doesn't paste the output of the previous command but it's execute d again, this time with the output going straight in the edit buffer. I use it to manipulate the output of the previous command on the shell — it works better if the output is a single line — but I think it could be modified to put the output also on the clipboard...
furstenheim 6y ago
This looks really useful. Paradoxically, I find that the terminal is the place where I end up using the mouse the most.
euske 6y ago
You can do this with tmux too. ~/.tmux.conf: # export to clipboard. bind-key > run-shell -b 'tmux save-buffer - | xclip' # paste from clipboard. bind-key < run-shell -b '( xclip -o | tmux load-buffer - ) && tmux paste-buffer' (edit: my actual setup is slightly different. It interacts with a Windows clipboard via ssh where the terminal is running. cf. https://github.com/euske/pyrexecd/blob/master/tools/tmux.conf https://github.com/euske/pyrexecd/blob/master/tools/tmux.con... )
- kilnr 6y ago
  You could also use `xclip -selection clipboard` if you wanted it to end up in your clipboard (so you can use ctrl-v to paste) instead of in your primary selection (the one where highlighting text copies and middle click pastes).
- hippira 6y ago
  I use xsel : ./command | xsel -ib
Hnrobert42 6y ago
On Mac OS, a much less powerful but built in tool is `pbcopy`.
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  To replicate pbcoby on X11 systems, add to your bashrc: alias clip="xclip -selection clipboard" `echo hello | clip` will copy 'hello' to the clipboard, and similarly `ls | clip` will copy a bunch of lines to the clipboard. You might need to install xclip through your package manger (the package is just named xclip on Arch).
  - kevincox 6y ago
    I like `xsel --clipboard` which Does The Right Thing by automatically deciding if it should copy or paste. # Paste clipboard into command. xsel --clipboard | grep foobar # Copy into clipboard grep foobar somefile.txt | xsel --clipboard # Transform clipboard. xsel --clipboard | tr A-Z a-z | xsel --clipboard I find this so useful that I have it aliased to `c`.
  - opan 6y ago
    On Wayland there's wl-clipboard (with wl-copy and wl-paste commands) which works basically the same.
  - jonS90 6y ago
    This is how I make pbcopy/pbpaste work on both Linux and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). if [[ "$(uname)" == "Linux" ]]; then if ! grep -q Microsoft /proc/version; then alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input' alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output' else alias pbcopy='clip.exe' alias pbpaste='powershell.exe -command "Get-Clipboard"' fi fi
- tomduncalf 6y ago
  Was going to say this myself. I find myself using it (and it’s counterpart, `pbpaste`) surprisingly frequently. This tool looks great for more involved use cases though I think for most scenarios I’d use it for, using the mouse with iTerm2 with “copy on highlight” might be quicker - can be nice to avoid the mouse though!
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Very cool tool! Two immediate thoughts: one, the naming had me confused for a while. The only place I've seen the word "yank" in computing is in Emacs context, where it means "paste", not "copy"... Two, natural extension of this idea is "interactively select and transform data in the pipe". I think existing text editors would be natural fit for this, especially if configured with some conveniences (like field-based navigation and ability to delete everything except a particular column/line with one command). Then, you could drop such editor into a pipe using something like [0]. I'm gonna try this with terminal Emacs client at some point. -- [0] - https://stackoverflow.com/a/49289440 https://stackoverflow.com/a/49289440
- jorams 6y ago
  > The only place I've seen the word "yank" in computing is in Emacs context, where it means "paste", not "copy"... This is a confusing difference between Emacs and Vim. Emacs uses it for pasting, Vim uses it for copying.
  - 0df8dkdf 6y ago
    also VIM. It is probably that. I guess he could have call it Put. But yank sounds cooler.
  - raverbashing 6y ago
    How did the Emacs developers ever thought "yank" would convey the meaning of "paste"? (Legitimate question. I'm aware some UX faux-pas do happen, but I don't see how)
    - ruph123 6y ago
      Oh oh. Someone had a too harmonic day and wants to add some spice to it.
    - Macha 6y ago
      Emacs developers viewed it as yanking out of the buffer into the document. Vim viewed it as yanking out of the document into the buffer. It's poor terminology either way, as yanking to me implies moving rather than copying as in both applications
ZeroGravitas 6y ago
This is actually a solution to a problem I've been looking at recently. My current experimental answer is using the terminal within Neovim, which is kind of a superset of this in some ways. I'm wondering if there's a standard way to invoke vim and just get a selection. Might make a good analog for vim users who don't want to commit to using its terminal.
- climb_stealth 6y ago
  With kitty you can map keyboard shortcuts to open the scrollback buffer in an editor. It's super neat and it has pretty much completely replaced using the neovim terminal for me. Below are my mappings for opening the scrollback in the current tab or a new one. What makes the former even better is that after closing it you are back in your regular terminal view. [0] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch.html https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch.html [1] #: You can pipe the contents of the current screen + history buffer as #: STDIN to an arbitrary program using the ``pipe`` function. For #: example, the following opens the scrollback buffer in less in an #: overlay window:: # map f1 pipe @ansi overlay less +G -R map f1 pipe @text tab /usr/local/bin/nvim '+ normal GA' - map f2 pipe @text overlay /usr/local/bin/nvim '+ normal GA' -
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  I'm not quite sure whether I understand what you're trying to say, but this should be close (put into vimrc): " bind leader-y and leader-p to clipboard copy/paste noremap <Leader>y "+y noremap <Leader>p "+p (\y or ,y is easier to use than "+y which is the default binding) `ps ux | vim -`, go into visual mode and select the stuff you want, then ,y to copy it to the clipboard. If you don't use a clipboard manager then of course it will be destroyed once you :q out of vim. You could probably add the :q! to the binding to make it automatically exit vim once you 'confirm' (copy) the selection.
- d3nj4l 6y ago
  In iTerm, searching for the text selects it, and you can use tab to expand the selection. Not quite vim, but it’s better than many other terminal emulators in that space.
michelledepeil 6y ago
The final example `yank -- xsel -b` is probably the most directly useful for me, but it still doesn't solve the following problem which irritates me to all hell: $ git push fatal: The current branch new has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use git push --set-upstream origin new Is there any sane way to copy the perfectly formatted `git push -u` command shown above without resorting to the following eval, which doesn't alias nicely? $(git push 2>&1 | grep git)
- dijit 6y ago
  I think “thefuck” handles this case really well: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
  - michelledepeil 6y ago
    This is perfect, because it's an after-the-fact solution instead of me trying to remember to type the right git command in the first place, much like copy-pasting the suggested command is. Thanks for the suggestion!
- c_thain 6y ago
  You can also just do git push -u origin HEAD
- windmark 6y ago
  I have the following alias which simply parses the branch name and passes with carts alias gpsu='git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | xargs git push --set-upstream origin'
trog 6y ago
This looks great. clip.exe does similar on Windows, although much simpler - e.g: dir /b c:\windows\*.exe |clip Been an integral part of my workflow for well over a decade!
jeduardo 6y ago
Useful tool indeed, thanks for sharing. I use clipper[1], which delivers a similar function through a different implementation. What I like about that one is that with right config you can also pipe output from remote servers back into your machine's clipboard, which is quite handy in so many situations. [1] https://github.com/wincent/clipper https://github.com/wincent/clipper
- knazarov 6y ago
  There's a better way to do it. Terminals have a special escape sequence called OSC 52, which allows you to insert into the clipboard from even remote SSH sessions. Try this: printf "\033]52;c;$(printf "%s" "blabla" | base64)\a"
  - jeduardo 6y ago
    Hey, that's quite interesting. Just tested it here with alacritty and was able to get data from a remote server into the clipboard. The downside here is that it did not seem to work immediately from inside tmux, but a quick search shows that there are ways to make it work. Also found a vim-plugin[1] that would allow it to work from inside vim as well. If I can also find a way to pipe random commands to it, it might indeed work better than clipper for my use cases. Finally, there is the added benefit of removing the need to forward the local UNIX socket over SSH, which I find to be a bit flaky. Thanks for sharing it! [1] https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank
  - mdaniel 6y ago
    I've found a couple of random blog posts and some user's pages laying out the OSC codes, but is there an open reference of them? I have also considered trawling through the various terminal emulator source repos in order to know which are actually implemented (since that can for sure be a different set from those which are specified)
capableweb 6y ago
Similarly, if you're using tmux there is the very handy tmux-fingers[1] plugin that kind of works like the vim-shortcut browser addons but inside tmux. You initialize the plugin and it shows you hints of what to copy, you press the wanted key and it copies the text next to the hint. Works with bunch of things (hashes, urls, numbers) and usually highlights what I want to copy, otherwise tmux with it's normal keyboard shortcuts work fine to manually select things. - [1] https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
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uyt 6y ago
I've been using ubuntu for over a decade and I have no idea how the clipboard works. There seems to be multiple clipboards and I have no idea when I am using which. I generally spam some combination of ctrl-v, shift-insert, rightclick context menu paste, middleclick, etc until I get what I want. I've abandoned vim for a gui solely because I have no idea how to copy stuff to/from it. Can someone finally explain it to me? Or tell me what to do to make it sane. (it of course did occur to me to google the question over the past 10 years but every time I did, I didn't find a satisfactory answer for something that ought to be a basic computer literacy skill)
- messo 6y ago
  In most terminal emulators you can use ctrl+shift+c/v to copy/paste to and from the clipboard. Works with vim to.
- Macha 6y ago
  Clipboards in x11 are based on selections. There are two selections of note, the primary selection and clipboard selection. In GUI applications, selecting text copies it to the primary selection, middle clicking pastes the primary selection. Ctrl-C copies to the clipboard selection, Ctrl-V pastes the clipboard selection. The happy path is to stick to those operations only. For terminals, ctrl-c/Ctrl-v have conflicting interpretations so are usually bound to ctrl-shift-c/ctrl-shift-v. Some (e.g. iterm) try to emulate copy on select on operating systems that don't support it by copying the selection to the single clipboard. For vim, the selections are bound to buffers. * Is the primary/selection buffer, + is the clipboard. Use "+y/"+p for ctrl-c/ctrl-v equivalents, or "*y/"*p for copy-on-select/middle click equivalents. Note that some distros ship a default "vim-minimal"/"vim-tiny" package built without this support so they can use it as "vi" for POSIX compatibility without pulling in x11 libraries. In that case look for a "vim-x11", "vim-full" or "gvim" package. Or use neovim, I haven't seen packagers slice that up the same way. Depending on your terminal, you may be also able to use the GUI equivalents in insert mode anyway (don't try use your terminal paste in normal mode, it'll paste into the command buffer). Shift-Insert is unfortunately application dependent. I think it _should_ be equivalent to middle click, but some apps treat it as ctrl-v. Some clipboard managers or applications will overwrite the primary contents with the clipboard contents when you perform an explicit copy.
ibraheemdev 6y ago
Alacritty's vi mode has clipboard support, so I just make selections and yank with the v and y keys.

88 points by polm23 6y ago

Back in the day, on the Amstrad CPC, there was a way to duplicate the cursor, move the duplicate around on any part of the screen and copy any text below the duplicate to where the actual cursor was. I always thought that this simple but powerful feature was missing on modern computers. The submission is not equivalent but clearly can help avoid having to move your mouse around. Still wish I didn't have to modify the original command as, very often, I realize that I want to copy the command's output after I execute it.

fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
In iterm2, with shell integration enabled, hitting Command-Shift-A selects all the output since the last prompt.
sime2009 6y ago
I built some of those kinds of cursors features into my terminal. http://extraterm.org/features.html http://extraterm.org/features.html It is never too late to steal features that the Commodore 64 could do in the early 80s (!!!). oh, Extraterm can help you reuse previous output after the fact and without having to be clairvoyant.
IronBacon 6y ago
> I realize that I want to copy the command's output after I execute it. With Zsh, cheating a little, you can achieve it with: _insert-last-command-output () { LBUFFER+="$(LS_COLORS= TERM=vt220 eval $history[$((HISTCMD-1))])" } There's some junk used for my configuration, the relevant part is the "eval" of the last command on the history, it doesn't paste the output of the previous command but it's execute d again, this time with the output going straight in the edit buffer. I use it to manipulate the output of the previous command on the shell — it works better if the output is a single line — but I think it could be modified to put the output also on the clipboard...

furstenheim 6y ago

This looks really useful. Paradoxically, I find that the terminal is the place where I end up using the mouse the most.

euske 6y ago

You can do this with tmux too. ~/.tmux.conf: # export to clipboard. bind-key > run-shell -b 'tmux save-buffer - | xclip' # paste from clipboard. bind-key < run-shell -b '( xclip -o | tmux load-buffer - ) && tmux paste-buffer' (edit: my actual setup is slightly different. It interacts with a Windows clipboard via ssh where the terminal is running. cf. https://github.com/euske/pyrexecd/blob/master/tools/tmux.conf https://github.com/euske/pyrexecd/blob/master/tools/tmux.con... )

kilnr 6y ago
You could also use `xclip -selection clipboard` if you wanted it to end up in your clipboard (so you can use ctrl-v to paste) instead of in your primary selection (the one where highlighting text copies and middle click pastes).
hippira 6y ago
I use xsel : ./command | xsel -ib

Hnrobert42 6y ago

On Mac OS, a much less powerful but built in tool is `pbcopy`.

the_pwner224 6y ago
To replicate pbcoby on X11 systems, add to your bashrc: alias clip="xclip -selection clipboard" `echo hello | clip` will copy 'hello' to the clipboard, and similarly `ls | clip` will copy a bunch of lines to the clipboard. You might need to install xclip through your package manger (the package is just named xclip on Arch).
- kevincox 6y ago
  I like `xsel --clipboard` which Does The Right Thing by automatically deciding if it should copy or paste. # Paste clipboard into command. xsel --clipboard | grep foobar # Copy into clipboard grep foobar somefile.txt | xsel --clipboard # Transform clipboard. xsel --clipboard | tr A-Z a-z | xsel --clipboard I find this so useful that I have it aliased to `c`.
- opan 6y ago
  On Wayland there's wl-clipboard (with wl-copy and wl-paste commands) which works basically the same.
- jonS90 6y ago
  This is how I make pbcopy/pbpaste work on both Linux and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). if [[ "$(uname)" == "Linux" ]]; then if ! grep -q Microsoft /proc/version; then alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input' alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output' else alias pbcopy='clip.exe' alias pbpaste='powershell.exe -command "Get-Clipboard"' fi fi
tomduncalf 6y ago
Was going to say this myself. I find myself using it (and it’s counterpart, `pbpaste`) surprisingly frequently. This tool looks great for more involved use cases though I think for most scenarios I’d use it for, using the mouse with iTerm2 with “copy on highlight” might be quicker - can be nice to avoid the mouse though!

TeMPOraL 6y ago

Very cool tool! Two immediate thoughts: one, the naming had me confused for a while. The only place I've seen the word "yank" in computing is in Emacs context, where it means "paste", not "copy"... Two, natural extension of this idea is "interactively select and transform data in the pipe". I think existing text editors would be natural fit for this, especially if configured with some conveniences (like field-based navigation and ability to delete everything except a particular column/line with one command). Then, you could drop such editor into a pipe using something like [0]. I'm gonna try this with terminal Emacs client at some point. -- [0] - https://stackoverflow.com/a/49289440 https://stackoverflow.com/a/49289440

jorams 6y ago
> The only place I've seen the word "yank" in computing is in Emacs context, where it means "paste", not "copy"... This is a confusing difference between Emacs and Vim. Emacs uses it for pasting, Vim uses it for copying.
- 0df8dkdf 6y ago
  also VIM. It is probably that. I guess he could have call it Put. But yank sounds cooler.
- raverbashing 6y ago
  How did the Emacs developers ever thought "yank" would convey the meaning of "paste"? (Legitimate question. I'm aware some UX faux-pas do happen, but I don't see how)
  - ruph123 6y ago
    Oh oh. Someone had a too harmonic day and wants to add some spice to it.
  - Macha 6y ago
    Emacs developers viewed it as yanking out of the buffer into the document. Vim viewed it as yanking out of the document into the buffer. It's poor terminology either way, as yanking to me implies moving rather than copying as in both applications

ZeroGravitas 6y ago

This is actually a solution to a problem I've been looking at recently. My current experimental answer is using the terminal within Neovim, which is kind of a superset of this in some ways. I'm wondering if there's a standard way to invoke vim and just get a selection. Might make a good analog for vim users who don't want to commit to using its terminal.

climb_stealth 6y ago
With kitty you can map keyboard shortcuts to open the scrollback buffer in an editor. It's super neat and it has pretty much completely replaced using the neovim terminal for me. Below are my mappings for opening the scrollback in the current tab or a new one. What makes the former even better is that after closing it you are back in your regular terminal view. [0] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch.html https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch.html [1] #: You can pipe the contents of the current screen + history buffer as #: STDIN to an arbitrary program using the ``pipe`` function. For #: example, the following opens the scrollback buffer in less in an #: overlay window:: # map f1 pipe @ansi overlay less +G -R map f1 pipe @text tab /usr/local/bin/nvim '+ normal GA' - map f2 pipe @text overlay /usr/local/bin/nvim '+ normal GA' -
the_pwner224 6y ago
I'm not quite sure whether I understand what you're trying to say, but this should be close (put into vimrc): " bind leader-y and leader-p to clipboard copy/paste noremap <Leader>y "+y noremap <Leader>p "+p (\y or ,y is easier to use than "+y which is the default binding) `ps ux | vim -`, go into visual mode and select the stuff you want, then ,y to copy it to the clipboard. If you don't use a clipboard manager then of course it will be destroyed once you :q out of vim. You could probably add the :q! to the binding to make it automatically exit vim once you 'confirm' (copy) the selection.
d3nj4l 6y ago
In iTerm, searching for the text selects it, and you can use tab to expand the selection. Not quite vim, but it’s better than many other terminal emulators in that space.

michelledepeil 6y ago

The final example `yank -- xsel -b` is probably the most directly useful for me, but it still doesn't solve the following problem which irritates me to all hell: $ git push fatal: The current branch new has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use git push --set-upstream origin new Is there any sane way to copy the perfectly formatted `git push -u` command shown above without resorting to the following eval, which doesn't alias nicely? $(git push 2>&1 | grep git)

dijit 6y ago
I think “thefuck” handles this case really well: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
- michelledepeil 6y ago
  This is perfect, because it's an after-the-fact solution instead of me trying to remember to type the right git command in the first place, much like copy-pasting the suggested command is. Thanks for the suggestion!
c_thain 6y ago
You can also just do git push -u origin HEAD
windmark 6y ago
I have the following alias which simply parses the branch name and passes with carts alias gpsu='git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | xargs git push --set-upstream origin'

trog 6y ago

This looks great. clip.exe does similar on Windows, although much simpler - e.g: dir /b c:\windows\*.exe |clip Been an integral part of my workflow for well over a decade!

jeduardo 6y ago

Useful tool indeed, thanks for sharing. I use clipper[1], which delivers a similar function through a different implementation. What I like about that one is that with right config you can also pipe output from remote servers back into your machine's clipboard, which is quite handy in so many situations. [1] https://github.com/wincent/clipper https://github.com/wincent/clipper

knazarov 6y ago
There's a better way to do it. Terminals have a special escape sequence called OSC 52, which allows you to insert into the clipboard from even remote SSH sessions. Try this: printf "\033]52;c;$(printf "%s" "blabla" | base64)\a"
- jeduardo 6y ago
  Hey, that's quite interesting. Just tested it here with alacritty and was able to get data from a remote server into the clipboard. The downside here is that it did not seem to work immediately from inside tmux, but a quick search shows that there are ways to make it work. Also found a vim-plugin[1] that would allow it to work from inside vim as well. If I can also find a way to pipe random commands to it, it might indeed work better than clipper for my use cases. Finally, there is the added benefit of removing the need to forward the local UNIX socket over SSH, which I find to be a bit flaky. Thanks for sharing it! [1] https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank
- mdaniel 6y ago
  I've found a couple of random blog posts and some user's pages laying out the OSC codes, but is there an open reference of them? I have also considered trawling through the various terminal emulator source repos in order to know which are actually implemented (since that can for sure be a different set from those which are specified)

capableweb 6y ago

Similarly, if you're using tmux there is the very handy tmux-fingers[1] plugin that kind of works like the vim-shortcut browser addons but inside tmux. You initialize the plugin and it shows you hints of what to copy, you press the wanted key and it copies the text next to the hint. Works with bunch of things (hashes, urls, numbers) and usually highlights what I want to copy, otherwise tmux with it's normal keyboard shortcuts work fine to manually select things. - [1] https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers

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uyt 6y ago

I've been using ubuntu for over a decade and I have no idea how the clipboard works. There seems to be multiple clipboards and I have no idea when I am using which. I generally spam some combination of ctrl-v, shift-insert, rightclick context menu paste, middleclick, etc until I get what I want. I've abandoned vim for a gui solely because I have no idea how to copy stuff to/from it. Can someone finally explain it to me? Or tell me what to do to make it sane. (it of course did occur to me to google the question over the past 10 years but every time I did, I didn't find a satisfactory answer for something that ought to be a basic computer literacy skill)

messo 6y ago
In most terminal emulators you can use ctrl+shift+c/v to copy/paste to and from the clipboard. Works with vim to.
Macha 6y ago
Clipboards in x11 are based on selections. There are two selections of note, the primary selection and clipboard selection. In GUI applications, selecting text copies it to the primary selection, middle clicking pastes the primary selection. Ctrl-C copies to the clipboard selection, Ctrl-V pastes the clipboard selection. The happy path is to stick to those operations only. For terminals, ctrl-c/Ctrl-v have conflicting interpretations so are usually bound to ctrl-shift-c/ctrl-shift-v. Some (e.g. iterm) try to emulate copy on select on operating systems that don't support it by copying the selection to the single clipboard. For vim, the selections are bound to buffers. * Is the primary/selection buffer, + is the clipboard. Use "+y/"+p for ctrl-c/ctrl-v equivalents, or "*y/"*p for copy-on-select/middle click equivalents. Note that some distros ship a default "vim-minimal"/"vim-tiny" package built without this support so they can use it as "vi" for POSIX compatibility without pulling in x11 libraries. In that case look for a "vim-x11", "vim-full" or "gvim" package. Or use neovim, I haven't seen packagers slice that up the same way. Depending on your terminal, you may be also able to use the GUI equivalents in insert mode anyway (don't try use your terminal paste in normal mode, it'll paste into the command buffer). Shift-Insert is unfortunately application dependent. I think it _should_ be equivalent to middle click, but some apps treat it as ctrl-v. Some clipboard managers or applications will overwrite the primary contents with the clipboard contents when you perform an explicit copy.

ibraheemdev 6y ago

Alacritty's vi mode has clipboard support, so I just make selections and yank with the v and y keys.