How do you use the Clipboard?

[ctschach]

On my Mac I use iTerm2 and they have some wonderful command extensions that make working in a terminal like a charm.

So there is one thing that drives me crazy on the iPad (not a blink issue, it's an iPad issue), and that's working with a clipboard. So let's say you have an output on the shell and want to copy-and-paste it and use it in a different app on the iPad. Especially if you have a large amount of text that requires scrolling, this is a pain the butt.

So wouldn't is be possible to create a shell extension command like:

it2copy

So you can do something like

ls -la | it2copy

As I don't think you can directly save something to the clipboard, this would open an popup with a "copy-to-clipboard" button.

The exiting it2copy command is just using an escape character to talk to the terminal.

[carloscabanero]

I think we already support this use case. Blink has OSC52 so it is a matter of having a command on the host you connect to (both on mosh and ssh). So you just need a command on the host to route it. Check out for options #1948

[ctschach]

Great…so it’s probably already supported. Thanks a lot…

[carloscabanero]

Moved this to a Q&A, as I admit that OSC52 is not the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about "Clipboard".