https://github.com/Jorenar/fauxClip

Custom registers and clipboard support for Vim without +clipboard
https://github.com/Jorenar/fauxClip

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Custom registers and clipboard support for Vim without +clipboard

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Jorenar/fauxClip
• Owner: Jorenar
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-12-06T19:54:41.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-10T05:11:06.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-02T18:04:07.822Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: clip, clipboard, nogui, tmux, vim
• Language: Vim Script
• Homepage:
• Size: 37.1 KB
• Stars: 33
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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fauxClip

========

**fauxClip** is a Vim plugin allowing to define custom registers, with primary

goal of providing a pseudo _clipboard_ support for versions of Vim compiled

without _+clipboard_.

---

Default utilities for clipboard yank and paste are:

* `xclip`  (on Linux with X server, or WSL)

* `xsel`   (fallback to `xclip`)

* `pbcopy` + `pbpaste` (on macOS)

* `clip.exe` + `powershell.exe Get-Clipboard` (on Windows)

* `wl-copy` + `wl-paste` (on Linux with Wayland)

---

Assuming you are on Linux, using Tmux, `xclip` is installed, and you didn't

change any of fauxClip's defaults, then the dictionary with commands for

registers will be set as following:

```vim

let g:fauxClip_regcmds = {

      \   '+': {

      \     'yank':  'xclip -f -i -selection clipboard',

      \     'paste': 'xclip -o -selection clipboard',

      \   },

      \   '*': {

      \     'yank':  'xclip -f -i',

      \     'paste': 'xclip -o',

      \   },

      \   ']': {

      \     'yank':  'tmux load-buffer -',

      \     'paste': 'tmux save-buffer -',

      \   }

      \ }

```

By manually setting any of the items you can overwrite the defaults, or craft

your own registers:

```vim

let g:fauxClip_regcmds = {

      \   '!': {

      \     'paste': 'echo "Bang!"'

      \   }

      \ }

```

**Note:** to disable clipboard registers `*` and `+` you need to explicitly set

them to empty strings.

---

To set different "register" for Tmux than `]`:

```vim

let g:fauxClip_tmux_reg = 't'

```

If for some reason you don't want to suppress error messages from clipboard

command (e.g. `xclip`'s empty clipboard), then:

```vim

let g:fauxClip_suppress_errors = 0

```

If Vim is compiled with _+clipboard_, but you want to use custom commands

regardless, then:

```vim

let g:fauxClip_always_use = 1

```

## Installation

#### [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug):

```vim

Plug 'Jorengarenar/fauxClip'

```

#### Vim's packages

```bash

cd ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start

git clone git://github.com/Jorengarenar/fauxClip.git

```

#### Single file

```sh

curl --create-dirs -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jorengarenar/fauxClip/master/plugin/fauxClip.vim -o ~/.vim/plugin/fauxClip.vim

```