copy to clipboard?

[jesper-olsen]

Copy to clipboard (⌘c) seems not to be implemented?
Paste (⌘v) is implemented...

Helix 23.03 on a Macbook M1 (Ventura 13.0)

[David-Else]

What is your output for hx --health clipboard?

[jesper-olsen]

% hx --health clipboard System clipboard provider: pbpaste+pbcopy

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[jesper-olsen]

Turns out it is because of the mouse mode - has to be off for copy to work...

[editor]
mouse = false

[kirawi]

That's strange, I have mouse mode enabled and it never caused me problems. I also don't think there would be any reason for it to happen looking at the code.

[jesper-olsen]

Are you on macOS like me? vim and hx are the same for me - only difference is that mouse mode is off by default for vim and on by default for hx. Mouse mode is nice - but not at the cost of copy...

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[kirawi]

Yes. I reread your post and I realized you weren't using the yank command. I'd recommend using space-y to copy instead which will allow you to keep mouse mode on.

[jesper-olsen]

Nice - どうもありがとう

[dawkrish]

isn't there something like
clipboard=unnamedplus for helix ?

[k4lizen]

Yes. I reread your post and I realized you weren't using the yank command. I'd recommend using space-y to copy instead which will allow you to keep mouse mode on.

I ran into the same problem and came upon this issue. I often do mouse select -> copy. Currently only space-y works, and just y doesnt. space-y is a clunky shortcut for me to use for such a common action, is there a workaround?
Also is there a reason that ctrl-shift-c doesn't work?

[kirawi]

y yanks to a register, not the clipboard. You can rebind y to "yank_main_selection_to_clipboard" in your config to change that (though you'll likely find registers are more often used than the clipboard once you learn how to use them). What are you expecting C-C to do?

[k4lizen]

You can rebind y to "yank_main_selection_to_clipboard" in your config to change that

Thanks!

though you'll likely find registers are more often used than the clipboard once you learn how to use them

I don't use helix as my editor (for now) (I use vscode(ium) for that), just use it when I need to quickly edit/skim some file, which is commonly accompanied with some copy-pasting action. I'm not really proficient in helix, but I'm assuming I can't use the registers if I want to copy something to out of helix right?

What are you expecting C-C to do?

ctrl-shift-c is "copy to clipboard" on most terminals.

[kirawi]

I don't think any TUI editor follows the convention of using C-C for yanking. Among other reasons, I'm guessing it's also because it conflicts with the terminal binding.

[pascalkuthe]

Helix is a vim/kakoune like editor. Mouse support is not a priority and behaving like vscode or other guis is a non-goal.

[k4lizen]

I don't think any TUI editor follows the convention of using C-C for yanking. Among other reasons, I'm guessing it's also because it conflicts with the terminal binding.

It doesn't conflict from my experience at least, it simply doesn't work

Mouse support is not a priority

Yeah but its nice to have

and behaving like vscode or other guis is a non-goal.

Thats understandable

As a side-note, tmux in vim-mode (and probably emacs as well) copies to clipboard on mouse select (though I understand thats apples/oranges somewhat, its good qol on their part (since they also support regular vim visual mode selection and yanking))

[markstos]

On some terminals if you hold down "shift" and select text, I believe the selection belongs to the terminal instead of the app, and the terminal itself may be configured to copy its selection to the system clipboard. I believe this works on wezterm, foot and alacritty. I've tested it today on Wezterm. I recall it working on foot and I think it worked on Alacritty.

[k4lizen]

Ou it works for me on kitty! This is the best solution imo. Thank you!

[xtrasmal]

I'm on Alacritty.
I press 'v', then make a selection.
Then press space-Y
Then you can paste it everywhere you want.

[k4lizen]

Neat! Selecting with mouse in normal mode and doing space-Y works for me, but the shortcut is quite cumbersome to do for something such as copying which I do often (hard to do with left hand on qwerty, but I use colemak-dh which makes it impossible so I have to move my hand right hand off my mouse to the keyboard and back, which is insanely bad)