I'm an early user (I think?) And I can say that the project is very useful. Good work! I also contributed a couple issues, not much but it's honest work.
Cool to see you on Lemmy :)
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Our FOSS terminal clipboard manager
There’s a gif on GitHub page, but it doesn’t make it obvious (for me) if this software can help with “regular” copy/paste. What if I’m logged into two tty sessions at once, can I copy text in nano in one tty and paste it in other editor, like micro, in the other tty? With some universal hotkey?
It depends on what exactly you want to do, if you want just a hotkey that copies something in one window and pastes it in another, you'd have to set that up manually. But if you're logged into two SSH sessions at once and you want to copy something from one session and paste it in another, you could do that here. And if you want some hotkey to access something like the clipboard history in a GUI, then you'd need to set up in your window manager. Some users accomplish this through a combination of jq + dmenu (jq to process JSON output, dmenu to select an entry), so it's entirely do-able. For example, here is one such command: cb cp "$(cb hs | jq -r '.[].content | if type=="array" then .[].path else if type=="object" then .path else . end end' | dmenu)"
Yes, that’s what I wanted to know. So alas, no out-of-the-box magic for me…I find it incredibly frustrating that in 2023 one can’t simply copy-paste text from one local console to another. It seems like a basic function for a terminal-based *nix systems which doesn’t exist. I know it’s complicated even at the first glance, with huge security implications (like copying text in the root terminal and pasting it to a user one) but I believe it’s all solvable
simply copy-paste text from one local console to another
Well, if you just have two windows going to two different terminals, whatever text you select in one you can just copy to the other usually with Ctrl+SHIFT+C and Ctrl+SHIFT+V, and my clipboard manager lets you do the same even for large amounts of text you can't select. Therefore, all you'd need a specific setup for is if you want to do this action automatically with a single button press, like an Excel macro. I hope this helps! :)
I think they meant TTYs
Thank you, fellow 0ver.org maintainer! I am excited to see your progress
Does this work over ssh? For example, I'm in a ssh session, I can pipe something into a terminal program, and I can paste it with Ctrl + V on the host machine?
If your terminal supports something called OSC 52, then it should work great! I use Kitty which does support it and Alacrity should also too.
Do you mean it should work regardless of this tool? Or it works because of this tool?
I use foot for the most part, and alacritty when I use X. I'll check if foot has it. Thanks!!
Synchronizing the clipboard over SSH uses the OSC 52 protocol, which both the terminal and the programs you run in the terminal have to support. Foot may or may not support it, and almost no regular software does, but CB got complete OSC 52 support recently.
Oh I will have to look into this.
Hey, I've seen this project a while ago, and it looks really well done. However, I'm not totally sure what the usecase is for it.
Why would I use this over cp file ../file?
I'm not the author of the project but this has nothing to do with copying files around. Instead it's a clipboard manager, meaning it's to add things to your clipboard and then paste them elsewhere. So an app to manage your ctrl-C - ctrl-v
I think it does actually also copy files around. That may be cool and useful, but is why I don't want to use it. I don't want to accidentally do that instead of normal clipboard stuff.
There is actually no reason to use it over cp file ../file, because that's not what it does. Instead, you can save something "for later" as if the cp command had a memory.
And can it be used via ctrl+xcv commands?
Not gonna lie, I thought this was an Onion article at first.