--to-clipboard not working

[ndom91]

I'm having trouble with copying the generated images to my clipboard.

While generally the plugin works great and I've been able to generate png's in my configured path, images don't appear on the clipboard.

I saw a reference to xclip in the code, although seemingly just to check if the executable exists. So since I'm on wayland, I replaced /bin/xclip with a symlink to /bin/wl-copy (the wayland copy-to-clipboard binary).

This works everywhere else on the command line, etc. But not from the nvim silicon plugin.

I've tried the following:

• :'<,'>Silicon --to-clipboard, which results in the error message failed to parse command-line argument: '--to-clipboard'
• :'<,'>Silicon --to-clipboard=true, after double checking the flag parsing code. This gives a success message, but doesn't actually put anythign on the clipboard
• Setting g:to-clipboard = true in the config
• Adding an inotifywait listener on /bin/xclip does fire when executing the :Silicon command in nvim, I see a /bin/xclip OPEN notification

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[dr0bz]

Hi,

you need to escape the space:

:'<,'>Silicon\ --to-clipboard

BTW: there is a shortcut for --to-clipboard: -c

Regards

[dr0bz]

crap...

event with --to-clipboard it writes a file: --to-clipboard.png. But also copies to clipboard.

Is there a chance to fix it and have only one output: either a file or clipboard?

BTW: great plugin!!

[ndom91]

So the way I have been using it is as follows. I highlight a few lines, then just execute Silicon from cmd mode (:'<,'>Silicon) which results in the highlighted lines of text being fed into Silicon via the plugin and my clipboard being filled with the generated image. Seems to work without a hitch 👍 🤞

[dr0bz]

I see now. --to-clipboard can be omitted. But it also writes a file.