fish-shell/share/functions/fish_clipboard_paste.fish

function fish_clipboard_paste
    set -l data
    if type -q pbpaste
        set data (pbpaste 2>/dev/null)
    else if set -q WAYLAND_DISPLAY; and type -q wl-paste
        set data (wl-paste 2>/dev/null)
    else if type -q xsel
        set data (xsel --clipboard 2>/dev/null)
    else if type -q xclip
        set data (xclip -selection clipboard -o 2>/dev/null)
    else if type -q powershell.exe
        set data (powershell.exe Get-Clipboard | string trim -r -c \r)
    end

    # Issue 6254: Handle zero-length clipboard content
    if not string match -qr . -- "$data"
        return 1
    end

    # Also split on \r to turn it into a newline,
    # otherwise the output looks really confusing.
    set data (string split \r -- $data)

    # If the current token has an unmatched single-quote,
    # escape all single-quotes (and backslashes) in the paste,
    # in order to turn it into a single literal token.
    #
    # This eases pasting non-code (e.g. markdown or git commitishes).
    set -l quote_state (__fish_tokenizer_state -- (commandline -ct | string collect))
    if contains -- $quote_state single single-escaped
        if status test-feature regex-easyesc
            set data (string replace -ra "(['\\\])" '\\\\$1' -- $data)
        else
            set data (string replace -ra "(['\\\])" '\\\\\\\$1' -- $data)
        end
    else if not contains -- $quote_state double double-escaped
        and set -q data[2]
        # Leading whitespace in subsequent lines is unneded, since fish
        # already indents. Also gets rid of tabs (issue #5274).
        set -l tmp
        for line in $data
            switch $quote_state
                case normal
                    set -a tmp (string trim -l -- $line)
                case single single-escaped double double-escaped escaped
                    set -a tmp $line
            end
            set quote_state (__fish_tokenizer_state -i $quote_state -- $line)
        end
        set data $data[1] $tmp[2..]
    end
    if not string length -q -- (commandline -c)
        # If we're at the beginning of the first line, trim whitespace from the start,
        # so we don't trigger ignoring history.
        set data[1] (string trim -l -- $data[1])
    end

    if test -n "$data"
        commandline -i -- $data
    end
end