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I've long used neovim from within windows wsl, and for far too long, I went without a proper way to get text out of it and into windows.
wsl has access to cmd applications #
wsl can access clip.exe. You can do some cool things with it, such as cat a file into the clipboard, sending output from a command to the clipboard, or set an autocmd group in vim to send yank to the windows clipboard.
using clip.exe #
Let's say you want to send a teammate the tail of a log file over chat. You can tail the file into clip.exe.
tail -n 1 info.log | clip.exe
pipe streams of text into clip.exe
make it a bit more natural #
I recently made mine feel a bit more natural by aliasing it to clip.
alias clip=clip.exe
pop this in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
yanking to windows clipboard from vim #
I use neovim as my daily text editor and its a pain to share code with a teammate over chat, stack overflow, into a gist, or whatever you need. The following snippet has been quite useful and flawless for me.
if system('uname -r') =~ "Microsoft" augroup Yank autocmd! autocmd TextYankPost * :call system('/mnt/c/windows/system32/clip.exe ',@") augroup END endif
add this to your ~/.vimrc or your ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
Wsl2 #
Based on some
feedback
from l-sannin the 'uname -r' command now
returns uname -r command returns '5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2'
So you will need an all lowercase microsoft.
if system('uname -r') =~ "microsoft" augroup Yank autocmd! autocmd TextYankPost * :call system('/mnt/c/windows/system32/clip.exe ',@") augroup END endif