Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 06/02/2024 06:14, David Christensen wrote:
> Enter a Zip Code of "12345", highlight the first result, copy it to the 
> clipboard,
[...]> But if I close the above Firefox window, start a Firefox instance,
> browse to:

If you terminate an application handling selection then content is not 
available any more. To make selection "persistent", you may try some 
clipboard manager, but it may have not always desirable side effects.

To debug you may use xsel or xclip

    xclip -o -selection PRIMARY
    xclip -o -selection CLIPBOARD

To access primary selection or clipboard in vim use * and + registers: 
"*p in normal mode or C-R* in insert mode. It is safer than middle click 
or [Ctrl+Shift+V] handled by terminal since selection may contain 
terminal control characters (e.g. to exit from vim and to run rm -rf ~ 
in terminal).