Unified clipboard between Neovim and Windows WSL2
Published at 7 April 2022
#linux#neovim#terminal-shell#windows#wsl2
Install win32yank.exe
SHELL$ curl -sLo/tmp/win32yank.zip https://github.com/equalsraf/win32yank/releases/download/v0.0.4/win32yank-x64.zip $ unzip -p /tmp/win32yank.zip win32yank.exe > /tmp/win32yank.exe $ chmod +x /tmp/win32yank.exe $ sudo mv /tmp/win32yank.exe /usr/local/bin/
Remember to restart shell, to cache binary. I experienced not being able to access it straight after download and move.
Configure Neovim
TEXT" Unified clipboard WSL2 set clipboard+=unnamedplus let g:clipboard = { \ 'name': 'win32yank-wsl', \ 'copy': { \ '+': 'win32yank.exe -i --crlf', \ '*': 'win32yank.exe -i --crlf', \ }, \ 'paste': { \ '+': 'win32yank.exe -o --lf', \ '*': 'win32yank.exe -o --lf', \ }, \ 'cache_enabled': 0, \ }
Source: Neovim FAQ