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I’ve made some progress this week at enabling text selection in nomad, but I’ve realised that clipboard access is actually a bit tricky.

Each platform has slightly different requirements when it comes to supporting the clipboard. It’s possible to run different programs depending on the platform in order to copy/paste something from/to the clipboard:

macOS

# copy text
echo 'hello' | pbcopy

# paste text
pbpaste

Linux

# copy text
echo 'hello' | xclip

# paste text
xclip -o

I can’t be bothered right to do this bit now, but at least I’ve made a small amount of progress.