A Vim plugin to copy text to the system clipboard using the ANSI OSC52 sequence.
The plugin wraps a piece of text inside an OSC52 sequence and writes it to Vim's stderr. When your terminal detects the OSC52 sequence, it will copy the text into the system clipboard.
This is totally location-independent, you can copy text from anywhere including from remote SSH sessions. The only requirement is that the terminal must support the sequence. You can find at the end a non-exhaustive list of the state of OSC52 integration in popular terminal emulators.
With vim-plug for instance:
Plug 'ojroques/vim-oscyank', {'branch': 'main'}
If you are using Tmux, run these steps first:
Enabling OSC52 in Tmux. Then make sure
set-clipboard
is set to on
in your Tmux config:
set -s set-clipboard on
See :h oscyank-tmux
for more details.
Add this to your Vim config:
nmap <leader>c <Plug>OSCYankOperator
nmap <leader>cc <leader>c_
vmap <leader>c <Plug>OSCYankVisual
With these mappings:
Neovim 0.10+ natively supports OSC52 since this PR
was merged. See :h clipboard-osc52
in Neovim. If you still wish to use this plugin, add this to
your Neovim config:
vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>c', '<Plug>OSCYankOperator')
vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>cc', '<leader>c_', {remap = true})
vim.keymap.set('v', '<leader>c', '<Plug>OSCYankVisual')
The available options with their default values are:
let g:oscyank_max_length = 0 " maximum length of a selection, 0 for unlimited length
let g:oscyank_silent = 0 " disable message on successful copy
let g:oscyank_trim = 0 " trim surrounding whitespaces before copy
let g:oscyank_osc52 = "\x1b]52;c;%s\x07" " the OSC52 format string to use
See :h oscyank-config
for more details.
The following commands are also available:
:OSCYank(text)
: copy text text
:OSCYankRegister(register)
: copy text from register register
For instance, to automatically copy text that was yanked into the unnamed register ("
) as well as
+
and "
when the clipboard isn't working:
if (!has('nvim') && !has('clipboard_working'))
" In the event that the clipboard isn't working, it's quite likely that
" the + and * registers will not be distinct from the unnamed register. In
" this case, a:event.regname will always be '' (empty string). However, it
" can be the case that `has('clipboard_working')` is false, yet `+` is
" still distinct, so we want to check them all.
let s:VimOSCYankPostRegisters = ['', '+', '*']
function! s:VimOSCYankPostCallback(event)
if a:event.operator == 'y' && index(s:VimOSCYankPostRegisters, a:event.regname) != -1
call OSCYankRegister(a:event.regname)
endif
endfunction
augroup VimOSCYankPost
autocmd!
autocmd TextYankPost * call s:VimOSCYankPostCallback(v:event)
augroup END
endif
Terminal | OSC52 support |
---|---|
alacritty | yes |
contour | yes |
far2l | yes |
foot | yes |
gnome terminal (and other VTE-based terminals) | not yet |
hterm | yes |
iterm2 | yes |
kitty | yes |
konsole | not yet |
qterminal | not yet |
rxvt | yes |
st | yes (but needs to be enabled, see here) |
terminal.app | no, but see workaround |
tmux | yes |
urxvt | yes (with a script, see here) |
wezterm | yes |
windows terminal | yes |
xterm.js (Hyper terminal) | not yet |
zellij | yes |
Feel free to add terminals to this list by submitting a pull request.
You can also check can-i-use-terminal.github.io to see if your terminal supports OSC52.