Thanks for the detailed explanation.

On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 6:33:19 PM MST Shmerl wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:05:22 -0700 Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> *> I am guessing by your comments that Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V
> doesn’t work*
> *> for some reason.*
> 
> Those shortctuts should work as usual. But the idea is to use editors that
> integrate with system
> clipboard in some way. I.e. if in neovim you use clipboard providers, you
> can copy editor's own
> selection into system clipboard instead of relying on terminal's selection.
> It makes a difference in
> how easy it's to do things.
> 
> In case of local usage, neovim would rely on xsel or wl-copy to send text
> to system clipboard,
> but when you do it remotely over ssh, you either need to forward X, or find
> some other ways.
> 
> Without forwarding X (good for Wayland world), OSC52 is such mechanism.
> OSC = operating system command [escape sequence].
> 
> It basically signals to the terminal through some special escape sequence,
> that some portion
> of text should be copied to the clipboard. And it works very neatly.
> 
> Regards,
> Shmerl.


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