@AlejandroSuero Not working, I cloned your fork, checked out your branch and compiled. --copy is not copying to the clipboard. Also make test fails. I am on MacOS (14.5 (23F79))

❯ make test
go test ./...
?   	github.com/charmbracelet/freeze/font	[no test files]
?   	github.com/charmbracelet/freeze/input	[no test files]
?   	github.com/charmbracelet/freeze/svg	[no test files]
?   	github.com/charmbracelet/freeze/test/input	[no test files]
--- FAIL: TestFreezeCopy (0.04s)
    freeze_test.go:81: clipboard is empty
FAIL
FAIL	github.com/charmbracelet/freeze	2.748s
FAIL
make: *** [test] Error 1

@Moulick I am using the same version of MacOS and it builds correctly with go build.

• Result from using ./freeze --config user --lines 23,30 config.go --copy after being built:
  

As for the test part, I committed a fix (eba42f9), apparently it was reading from the clipboard but not writing it, for example: If I have an image on the clipboard it will pass the test but it will fail otherwise.

• Image from make test:
  

@AlejandroSuero now the test works, and the image generated by the make test appears in my clipboard. But running ./freeze --lines 23,30 config.go --copy still writes the image to the disk rather than clipboard. Attaching the compiled binary from my laptop

freeze.zip

After unzip freeze.zip then ./freeze --execute "exa -l" --copy I get this (recently powered up MacOS machine with nothing in the clipboard):

But running ./freeze --lines 23,30 config.go --copy still writes the image to the disk rather than clipboard

With these, are you referring to the fact that it writes the output image as well as copying it to the clipboard?

When running ./freeze --lines 23,30 config.go --copy with the downloaded freeze.zip I get the image freeze.png as well as it being copied to the clipboard:

@AlejandroSuero not sure if there is something wrong with my machine but for me --copy is writing the freeze.png to disk and nothing to clipboard. Maybe we need someone else to try test

@Moulick this is how it works for me just powering up the machine and having the clipboard empty.

With the changes in c57172d, It still passes the tests and works the same way manually for me.

Hey @AlejandroSuero, instead of introducing a new flag I wonder if we should simply allow --output clipboard or --output copy to copy to the clipboard, what do you think?

No opinions, but you could also introduce the option to print to stdout so you could freeze --output stdout | pbcopy.

No opinions, but you could also introduce the option to print to stdout so you could freeze --output stdout | pbcopy.

In that case I would rather simply detect if stdout is a tty and send to stdout if it's not a tty.

freeze | pbcopy

@maaslalani the problem I contemplated when I thought about it in the first place was that if for example you want to write an output name like artichoke_example.png and still you want to copy the image to the clipboard it won't be possible.

But I would like to hear your thoughts about that scenario.

@meowgorithm as for the stdout @Moulick mentioned this in the issue linked to this PR:

• put result in clipboard #58 (comment)

1. It looks like something is broken on my system, as I ran a new MacOS VM and it works fine there. I have no clue what's broken on my system but probably a myriad of third-party applications I am running that might be interfering with the clipboard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2. --output clipboard does sound like a better idea. I don't think anyone want to copy to clipboard and write to disk at the same time. Even on Android/iOS, the option when taking a screenshot is copy to clipboard and delete.
3. pbcopy does not handle putting images into the clipboard correctly. So freeze | pbcopy cannot work.
   1. freeze --output stdout or detecting stdout tty should also be done, so we can use other programs (like image compression) in the workflow but probably in a separate PR.

@maaslalani @Moulick lets see if you can help me figure out why freeze --output clipboard isn't working.

I made the following changes:

• On png.go, refactored if copyClipboard for:

  switch output {
  case "clipboard":
    err = clipboard.Init()
    if err != nil {
      return err
    }
    clipboard.Write(clipboard.FmtImage, png)
    clipboard.Read(clipboard.FmtImage)
  break
  default:
    err = os.WriteFile(output, png, 0644)
    if err != nil {
      return err
    }
  }

But it does not copy to clipboard it just writes file clipboard.