wl-copy is a daemon process that serves its stdin to any wl-paste processes.
On Wayland, we launch it from fish_clipboard_copy. It then lives in the
same process group as fish (see `ps -o pid,pgid,comm`).
For some reason pressing ctrl-c inside the VSCode integrated terminal with
fish as the default shell kills the wl-copy process, thus clearing the
clipboard. On other terminals it works fine.
This is also reproducible by running "echo foo | wl-copy" ctrl-v ctrl-c ctrl-v
(the second ctrl-v does not paste because wl-copy was killed).
Work around this for now by running wl-copy asynchronously, and disowning it.
This seems to fix it though I really don't know why. Alternatively we could
"setsid" but that's technically not available on BSD.
For some reason this works in Bash. We should strace it to figure out why.
For security reasons, some terminals require explicit permission from the
user to interpret OSC 52. One of them is [tmux] but that one usually runs
inside another terminal. This means we can usually write directly to the
underlying terminal, bypassing tmux and the need for user configuration.
This only works if the underlying terminal is writable to the fish user,
which may not be the case if we switched user. For this reason, keep writing
to stdout as well, which should work fine if tmux is configured correctly.
[tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard
When running inside SSH, Control-X runs a clipboard utility on the remote
system. For pbcopy (and probably clip.exe too) this means that we write to the
remote system's clipboard. This is usually not what the user wants (although
it is consistent with fish_clipboard_paste). When X11 forwarding is used,
xclip/xsel copy to the SSH client's clipboard, which is what most users want.
When we don't have X11 forwarding, we need a different solution. Fortunately,
modern terminal emulators implement the OSC 52 escape sequence for setting
the clipboard of the terminal's system. Use it in fish_clipboard_copy.
Tested in SSH and Docker containers on foot, iTerm2, kitty, tmux and xterm
(this one requires "XTerm.vt100.allowWindowOps: true").
Should also work in GNU screen and Windows Terminal. On terminals that don't
support OSC 52 (like Gnome Terminal or Konsole), it seems to do nothing.
Since there does not seem to be a way to feature-probe OSC 52, let's just
always do both (pbcopy and friends as well as OSC 52). In future, we should
probably stop calling pbpaste and clip.exe, at least on remote systems.
I think there is also an escape sequence to request pasting the system
clipboard but that's less important and less popular, possibly due to
security concerns.
This makes these tools usable in a pipe.
You can run
```fish
some-long-command | fish_clipboard_copy
```
to copy some command's output to your clipboard, and
```fish
fish_clipboard_paste | some-other-command
```
To feed your clipboard to some command.
Ubuntu's fish package on WSL 1 has xsel as recommended dependency,
even though there is no X server available. This change makes us
use Windows' native clipboard even when xsel is installed.
- clip.exe is used to copy to the Windows clipboard
- There's no binary for pasting from the Windows clipboard so
`Get-Clipboard` from powershell is used as a workaround. The
superflous carriage return is stripped from the output.
When this switched over from directly piping commandline to storing
its output and using printf, I inadvertently always added a trailing
newline. That's probably annoying.
Note that this will now always *remove* a trailing newline (because
the command substitution does). That will barely make a
difference (because trailing newlines are quite unusual in the
commandline) and will probably feel better than keeping it - we could
even make a point of removing trailing whitespace in general.
Fixes#6927
This runs build_tools/style.fish, which runs clang-format on C++, fish_indent on fish and (new) black on python.
If anything is wrong with the formatting, we should fix the tools, but automated formatting is worth it.
I hate doing this but I am tired of touching a fish script as part of
some change and having `make style` radically change it. Which makes
editing fish scripts more painful than it needs to be. It is time to do
a wholesale reformatting of these scripts to conform to the documented
style as implemented by the `fish_indent` program.
