ssh: Copying, Pasting - not working with Wayland

You’re tugging along happily, setting things up, but one thing starts bothering you.

Let’s say, you have a config file open in (n)vim on your server and want to select parts and paste them somewhere else.

Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V are not working from inside (n)vim editors 🤔

You resort to the solution, that always slipped your mind in the past:

Visually selecting the parts in vim and yanking to clipboard with "+y - well, that’s broken, too.

vim system register * and + not working

Neovim should work.
But, it does not.

Googling brought me to: sudo apt install wl-clipboard.

You need a modern Neovim (> 0.10.x) build with Wayland clipboard support!

This works because Wayland uses a different clipboard protocol than X11. The wl-clipboard package provides the necessary tools (wl-copy and wl-paste) that Neovim uses to interface with Wayland’s clipboard, enabling the + and * registers to function properly.

Some things are just plain hard in Linux.

For copy-pasting with vim

https://stackoverflow.com/a/61379319

Assuming you only want to copy line sections of the file, do shift+v to go into visual mode and only highlight the lines I want to copy. Then do.

:'<,'>w !wl-copy

where

'<,'> - means you used visual mode to select a range (you don’t type this) w !{cmd} - write the range to the stdin of cmd, see more at :help w_c