Give vi_normal mode's cut/paste access to the system clipboard

[mister-drgn]

Is there any interest in allowing vi_normal mode to the use the system clipboard, rather than its own isolated clipboard? I realize this might require third-party support from something like xclip, but it could be a nushell configuration option, similar to how it works in neovim.

This feature would likely be more useful if a y->yank keybinding were added to vi_normal mode as well.

I'm pretty new here, so apologies if these requests have been addressed in the past. I couldn't find anything by searching. Thanks.

[fdncred]

I'm guessing that if it doesn't already, it wouldn't be too tricky to add since reedline already uses the aboard crate.

reedline/Cargo.toml

Line 16 in f244736

arboard = { version = "3.3.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["wayland-data-control"] }

[sholderbach]

To clarify: which operations in your mind should touch the system clipboard?

• Should every operation (e.g. dd, x) reach into the clipboard
• Just a subset (y... as explicit copy, how would p work then?)
• We implement a vim register system as well and you should use "+<operation touching the cb> like "+yy for system clipboard accesss while keeping a separate register for the standard operations.

I think as a ton of basic editing ops (deletions) move content into vim internal "clipboards", sharing this with the system clipboard may be quite surprising or annoying depending on the situation.

[mister-drgn]

This seems like a fair point. For anyone currently using vim mode, it would be disruptive if various editing operations suddenly started interacting with the system clipboard.

On vim, there's a single line in the configuration that can be used to specify that you'd like it to use the system clipboard. Something similar could make sense for reedline/nushell, with the option off by default. If the user chose to enable the option, I would think that all commands (even d and x) would use the system clipboard, to avoid any confusion.