fish_clipboard_copy/paste: Handle redirected stdout/stdin #9271
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Description
This makes these tools usable in a pipe.
You can run
to copy some command's output to your clipboard, and
To feed your clipboard to some command.
For instance, let's say I want to insert my patented "commits missing from release X" table.
I've written a function called "gitcomp" to generate the info, and I have another function "mdtable" that transforms it to markdown. But I need it in my clipboard so I can paste it in the browser, and previously I'd use
xsel --clipboard
for that, which is very platform-dependent - if I switched to wayland I'd suddenly have to get used to a different thing!So now I can instead do:
and paste directly into my browser to get:
and if I want to work on something from my clipboard, I can do
fish_clipboard_paste | something
and be reasonably sure it'll work.
TODOs: