Cool. A few more cases that might be nice to handle (not saying they need to happen in this PR):

1. If we're using SSH, try setting the clipboard using OSC 52
2. If we're in WSL, do some magic to set the Windows clipboard

I maintain a (very bad) Rust crate that uses some of these tricks: https://github.com/rgwood/clipboard-anywhere

you could also add if it's a mac, use pbcopy. I can give better syntax later. It may be best to use $nu.os-info.name to check the os.

you could also add if it's a mac, use pbcopy. I can give better syntax later. It may be best to use $nu.os-info.name to check the os.

thanks for the name of the clipboard command, i've added it right away 👌

@rgwood

Cool. A few more cases that might be nice to handle (not saying they need to happen in this PR):

1. If we're using SSH, try setting the clipboard using OSC 52
2. If we're in WSL, do some magic to set the Windows clipboard

these are very good and sensible ideas !

could we keep them for another PR?
i can open an issue right after this to track the ssh and wsl clipboard features 😋

i've added some tests to make sure the CI passes, but xclip is not installed in the ubuntu branch of the CI 🤔

what should we do?

• add the xclip command to this system
• remove the test
• change the test to make sure it fails

what should we do?

I'd just add it I think.

I'd just add it I think.

there it is in 6404d0e then 😉

@fdncred

i had to remove the tests in 6028b98 because of this Can't open display: (null) error...

if you have an idea about that 😇

I'm thinking that can't open display problem may be because the DISPLAY env var isn't set? I think it needs to be something like DISPLAY=':0'. But that's just a guess.

I'm thinking that can't open display problem may be because the DISPLAY env var isn't set? I think it needs to be something like DISPLAY=':0'. But that's just a guess.

but in a non-graphical environment like this? 😮

i'll try on my test repo to avoid messing around here

mm this looks no good 😞

https://github.com/amtoine/tests/actions/runs/4610784442/jobs/8149672702#step:4:2

i think it's just that the CI is not a graphical environment and thus xclip won't work 🤔

i think it's just that the CI is not a graphical environment and thus xclip won't work 🤔

ya, maybe so. i was just guessing.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/305654/xclip-on-headless-server
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316715/xclip-works-differently-in-interactive-and-non-interactive-shells

xsel looked promising but it does not work either when DISPLAY is not set 😕

Thanks

Thanks

a bit sad the tests did not go well though 🤔