ever yanked something in nvim, switched to another window to paste, then remembered the nvim was through ssh and it didn't share a clipboard with your system?
First discovered while reading through the chrome ssh / hterm faq, OSC 52 uses escape sequences to let you send things through to the local clipboard. Requires a terminal emulator support.
run the following in an ssh session
copypasta! should appear in your local clipboard ready for pasting
printf "\033]52;c;Y29weXBhc3RhIQ==\a\n"
The vim plugins didn't work when i tested them, looking at the neovim issues, 8450 stood out. That script basically worked, but requires an extra script outside. Available gist
or slightly simplified
in init.nvim with set clipboard=unnamedplus
1let g:clipboard = {
2 \ 'name': 'myClipboard',
3 \ 'copy': {
4 \ '+': 'clipboard-provider copy',
5 \ },
6 \ 'paste': {
7 \ '+': 'clipboard-provider paste',
8 \ },
9 \ }
in $PATH
1#!/bin/bash
2#
3# clipboard provider for neovim
4#
5# :help provider-clipboard
6
7#exec 2>> ~/clipboard-provider.out
8#set -x
9
10: ${COPY_PROVIDERS:=tmux osc52}
11: ${PASTE_PROVIDERS:=tmux}
12: ${TTY:=`(tty || tty </proc/$PPID/fd/0) 2>/dev/null | grep /dev/`}
13
14main() {
15 declare p status=99
16
17 case $1 in
18 copy)
19 slurp
20 for p in $COPY_PROVIDERS; do
21 $p-provider copy && status=0
22 done ;;
23
24 paste)
25 for p in $PASTE_PROVIDERS; do
26 $p-provider paste && status=0 && break
27 done ;;
28 esac
29
30 exit $status
31}
32
33# N.B. buffer is global for simplicity
34slurp() { buffer=$(base64); }
35spit() { base64 --decode <<<"$buffer"; }
36
37tmux-provider() {
38 [[ -n $TMUX ]] || return
39 case $1 in
40 copy) spit | tmux load-buffer - ;;
41 paste) tmux save-buffer - ;;
42 esac
43}
44
45osc52-provider() {
46 case $1 in
47 copy) [[ -n "$TTY" ]] && printf $'\e]52;c;%s\a' "$buffer" > "$TTY" ;;
48 paste) return 1 ;;
49 esac
50}
51
52main "$@"