Fzf: ZSH: Save output of reversed searched command in clipboard (via xclip) when type CTRL+Y

[waldauf]

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    Hello,

    is there way how to print output of reversed searched command in stodut and save it into clipboard (use _xclip_) when I type CTRL+Y key?
    I imagine that this option will be saved in FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS variable.

    Thx for your answer!

[junegunn]

Here is my FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS

export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="--preview 'echo {}' --preview-window down:3:hidden:wrap --bind '?:toggle-preview' --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {2..} | pbcopy)+abort' --header 'Press CTRL-Y to copy command into clipboard' --border"

• CTRL-Y to copy the command to clipboard using pbcopy and exit (abort)
  
  
  
  • I'm not familiar with xclip, but it should be similar
  
  
• ? key to open preview window on the bottom to see long commands that don't fit in one line
• --border for cosmetic reasons

[jbriales]

I was looking for this same functionality, lucky to find it here!
I enabled it in bash as:

export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="--preview 'echo {}' --preview-window down:3:hidden:wrap --bind '?:toggle-preview' --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {2..} | xclip -selection clipboard; sleep 0.35s)+abort' --header 'Press CTRL-Y to copy command into clipboard'"

NOTE however I had this weird issue where I need to sleep after the xclip pipe, or otherwise the clipboard is not populated due to the abort :/
I tried different times, and anything below 0.35s fails (e.g. with sleep 0.3s it doesn't work). Which is quite a delay and a tiny bit annoying, but that's a workaround for now...
Any ideas on this?