pyperclip.vim

a simplistic plugin for using clipboard in vim9

providing vim9scrpt wrap up for pyperclip

requirements

vim9script
vim compiled with python3

usage

press <C-x> in visual mode to cut

press <C-c> in visual mode to copy

press <C-v> in insert mode to paste

interface

public functions

`ClipGetText(): string`

returns whatever is in the clipboard

`ClipSetText(text: string): void`

sets clipboard data to the given string

`ClipCopy(): void`

copies the last-selected text in VISUAL mode

`ClipCut(): void`

cuts the last-selected text in VISUAL mode

disable default keymaps

g:clip_no_maps = "default"

brief

I have decided to switch from neovim back to vim9 a few months ago, one of things I missed the most is that neovim uses external toolsets to handle clipboard (what they call providers), so that it's not broken when using wayland.

Though, with that said, some of existing vimscript may have performance issues -- they expect the registers to be fast, but now an external tool is spawned everytime they read or write the register.

This plugin sloves both of the problems : the clipboard now have nothing to do with registers. They're basically a set of apis you use when you explicitly want to access the clipboard, which by default is binded to the hotkeys desktop users most used to -- Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-V. The python library pyperclip handles external tools perfectly.

omegacoleman / pyperclip.vim