Unified clipboard between Neovim and Windows WSL2

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

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

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Unified clipboard between Neovim and Windows WSL2

Install win32yank.exe

Configure Neovim