vim-oscyank VS targets.vim

I'm usung this plugin and map it to https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank

Yes OSC 52 is very handy for vim over SSH: instead of X11 forwarding - you can just yank text from remote vim into the local clipboard using OSC 52 [1].

Overall it's much quicker - as yanking in vim with X11 forwarding and '+clipboard' sometimes had a delay.

(ps: I think OSC 52 is implemented in xterm and URXVT, but not yet in gnome-terminal)

[1]: https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank

> Cut and paste

If your terminal supports it (iterm, kitty, later versions of gnome-terminal and others) this osc52 plugin is really sweet. It even works over ssh.

https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank/

Hey! I've had some issues with this as well, I opted for this vim plugin, vim-oscyank, which uses escape characters to inform tmux (and therefore your terminal) of your clipboard contents.

The plugin itself is a rewrite in Lua of another plugin of mine, vim-oscyank with a clean-up of the code logic (and it allows me to remove one more Vimscript plugin from my config :p)

I just use this [0] vim plugin to copy in vim. For copying from the CLI in ssh I use this app [1]. Both leverage OSC52 escape codes which are pretty widely supported by terminals nowadays.

Need to figure out an equally simple solution for CLI paste support though.

[0] https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank

[1] https://github.com/theimpostor/osc52

Have you looked into vim-oscyank. It uses an ANSI escape sequence to copy to clipboard, provided your terminal supports it (most modern ones do).

Thank you everyone for the help! I spent a few days messing with these solutions. FOR ME: vim-oscyank worked best.

targets is nice too.

The thing that has the biggest impact on me is ci”, ca”, da”, etc.. so I suggested getting used to using those.. and then you can get more pedantic with it using https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

I do recommend getting, targets.vim https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim .. which unlocks the n(ext) and l(ast) verbs(?) ..ahhhh it’s REALLY REALLY good, I use 2in” like a lot

In fact, as /u/Chillbrosaurus_Rex points out, there's a plugin, targets.vim, that expands on Vim's built-in text objects, and one of the things it does is to provide this kind of forward and reverse direction functionality.

Hey, I use targets.vim, how does it compare with that?

You might benefit from targets.vim, it works well with your thought process. It adds a bunch of new really useful editing targets (which should be builtin imo).

https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

Thanks for the through explanation. I has seen that and considered using it in the past. Can I ask how it compares to https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim? Would you consider mini.ai a replacement or complementary?

This is provided by targets.vim, along with a bunch of other useful text objects.