Use system clipboard on MacOS

[bscuron]

I am currently trying to use the system clipboard by default, but I receive this message when I compile with the changes by @deepcube mentioned here: "Command failed System clipboard not supported". I also tried just setting the primary register = clipboard register in vis.h. This works inside of vis, but when I paste outside of the editor it does not paste the contents of the yanked text.

Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help. Thank you.

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[QiBaobin]

The * doesn't work, but + register works for me, you can use that instead.

  +   System clipboard register, see vis-clipboard(1)
  *   Primary clipboard register, see vis-clipboard(1)

[mcepl]

Yes, it is system dependent and Mac OS (and Windows) doesn’t have whole concept of selection aka PRIMARY, right? When you select text in one application and then middle-click in other one, nothing happens, right?

I think this ticket can be closed, because we can do nothing about your system.

[rnpnr]

I'm wondering if this behaviour even makes sense. Wouldn't it be better to just copy to the available clipboard and ignore the --selection argument if its not supported by the system?

[bscuron]

This worked for me on MacOS:

vis.registers['"'] = { io.popen("vis-clipboard --paste"):read("*all") } -- use system clipboard

This was suggested by @leorosa in #1003.