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Alex Gonzalez Lacasa
Alex Gonzalez Lacasa

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VIM / NeoVim and the clipboard (in Linux)

#neovim #vim #clipboard

First check is your vim installation is enabled to access to the system clipboard.

:checkhealth
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This show posible warnings like

Clipboard (optional) - WARNING No clipboard tool found. Clipboard registers ("+ and "*) will not work. - ADVICE: - :help clipboard
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try to put in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

set clipboard=unnamedplus
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If the clipboard still isn't working and your graphical environment uses Wayland, install:
wl-clipboard

sudo apt install wl-clipboard
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At least in my case the clipboard between applications already works.

And remember, in VISUAL mode
y for copy
p for paste

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Saltaformajo •

I'm using different mappings for neovims clipboard and system clipboard, so when I delete something in neovim, I know that my system clipboard untouched and I can paste one thing or another, depending what I need.

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