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I would like to get Ctrl + V and Ctrl + X to paste / copy from zsh to X11. I found the following snippet to work but zsh does not jump to the character after paste. How could I do that.

copy-to-clipboard () { if [ -n "$LBUFFER$RBUFFER" ]; then echo $LBUFFER$RBUFFER | xclip -i fi } paste-from-clipboard () { CLIPOUT=`xclip -o` BUFFER=$LBUFFER$CLIPOUT$RBUFFER } zle -N paste-from-clipboard paste-from-clipboard zle -N copy-to-clipboard copy-to-clipboard bindkey "^V" paste-from-clipboard bindkey "^X" copy-to-clipboard
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  • In copy-to-clipboard, you're adding an extra newline, and it won't work in a few edge cases. Make it print -nr -- $BUFFER | xclip -i Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 19:01

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zsh keeps the position of the cursor in the variable CURSOR so:

paste-from-clipboard () { CLIPOUT=`xclip -o` BUFFER=$LBUFFER$CLIPOUT$RBUFFER CURSOR=$(( $CURSOR + ${#CLIPOUT} )) }
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  • or simply LBUFFER+=$(xclip -o) Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 19:00
  • @Gilles is right , small note, don't add spaces to it. Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 21:11

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