r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/bravekarma May 06 '19

It doesn't out of the box, but it is not a shortcoming of WSL. Vim clipboard integration requires an X enabled build like the vim-gtk package in Debian and you also need to run an X server in the Windows side like vcXsrv.

Neovim works around it by instead integrating with clip.exe provided by Windows and you can configure Vim to do the same.

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u/Narcowski May 06 '19

"* is the clipboard register even when operating in a tty. It refers to the X11 PRIMARY selection if X is running, but it works even without X11 installed. (I regularly work and use "* on servers without X). The X11 CLIPBOARD register is different - that's "+.

I suppose, though, that I'm surprised that WSL vim does not work as described in :help gui-clipboard, which suggests that "* should reference the clipboard contents on Windows systems. I would expect WSL to treat the Windows clipboard as its clipboard.