Copying to your clipboard over SSH in vim with OSC52
I have my local vim set up to integrate with my system clipboard (so that p
pastes from my system clipboard etc), but I thought it was impossible to do the
same thing over SSH. It turns out that actually it is possible with an ANSI
escape sequence called OSC52! A few links:
- It’s a core Neovim feature: the neovim OSC 52 docs
- a vim-osc52 plugin
- a vim github issue about adding OSC 52 support
I haven’t tried this yet but it seems very cool
Dmitry Mazin also told me you can create this
script on a remote host, call it pbcopy, and piping into it will copy to your
clipboard! I tested it and it works.
#!/bin/bash
printf "\033]52;c;%s\007" "$(base64 | tr -d '\n')"