Copiepate

Copiepate is a small utility to remotly set the content of a clipboard.

I created this tool as I use a lot a remote tmux+vim setup and I often need to copy a vim register to my local desktop.

Installation

Using rust package manager: ```bash

On GNU+Linux you'll need xorg-dev libraries.

On other OSes (MacOS and Windows) this step is unecessary.

sudo apt install xorg-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Install copiepate

cargo install copiepate ```

Using rust package manager: ```bash

To compile copiepate on Linux you'll need xorg-dev libraries:

sudo apt install xorg-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev cargo install copiepate ```

Usage

On your local desktop start the daemon in server mode and forward the port 2323 via ssh:

```bash

Start copiepate in server mode

copiepate --server

In another shell, forward the server port to the remote machine

ssh remote-machine -R 2323:localhost:2323 ```

On the remote machine: ```bash

Set the clipboard content of the local machine:

echo -n "New clipboard content" | copiepate ```

Notes

In its default configuration, copiepate listens only on the localhost address, meaning that the port is not exposed to the local network.

WARNING: There is no authentication and encryption over the network other than the ssh tunnel. Meaning that any local service can in theory write to the clipboard knowing the port.

Vim integration

You can use copiepate to send the content of a vim register over the network: vim " Using Plug as plugin manager: Plug 'dimtion/copiepate', { 'rtp': 'vim' }

This plugin creates the following default bindings: ```vim " Send the default register noremap y :CopiePateReg

" In visual mode, send current selection vnoremap y :CopiePate ```