feat(plugin): Add ghostty-copypaste plugin

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Louis Rubet 2025-10-07 18:03:46 +02:00
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# zsh-ghostty-copypaste
[ghostty](https://ghostty.org/) users, this `zsh` plugin allows you to copy / paste a text selected with the keyboard with `ctrl+shift+c` / `ctrl+shift+v`.
To use it, add `ghostty-copypaste` to the plugins array of your `.zshrc` file:
```
plugins=(... ghostty-copypaste)
```
## Principle
- `ghossty` allows to copy / paste a text selected with the mouse, but not with the keyboard, because this is an action devoted to a terminal (`zsh`) and not to a terminal emulator (`ghostty`).
- When no mouse selection is started, `ghostty` passes a Control Sequence Introducer `^[[99;6u` / `^[[118;6u` to `zsh`. The plugin binds these CSI to the correct copy / paste functions for X11 or Wayland.
- Be careful, `ghostty` can lose focus when copying and pasting because of `xclip` or `wl-copy`/`wl-paste` in the plugin. If you use it as a context terminal ("quake"), it is best not to close it when it loses focus.

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function zle-copy-to-clipboard {
local selected_text start_pos end_pos
(( $MARK < $CURSOR ))
&& { start_pos=$MARK; end_pos=$CURSOR; }
|| { start_pos=$CURSOR; end_pos=$MARK; }
(( start_pos < 0 || end_pos < 0 ))
&& zle -R && return
selected_text="${BUFFER[$start_pos+1, $end_pos]}"
command -v xclip &> /dev/null
&& ( echo -n "$selected_text" | xclip -selection clipboard )
&& zle -R && return
command -v wl-copy &> /dev/null
&& ( echo -n "$selected_text" | wl-copy )
&& zle -R && return
zle -R
}
function zle-paste-from-clipboard {
local clipboard_content
command -v xclip &> /dev/null
&& clipboard_content=$(xclip -selection clipboard -o 2>/dev/null)
command -v wl-paste &> /dev/null
&& clipboard_content=$(wl-paste --no-newline 2>/dev/null)
[[ -z "$clipboard_content" ]] && return
LBUFFER+="$clipboard_content"
zle -R
}
zle -N zle-copy-to-clipboard
zle -N zle-paste-from-clipboard
# these 2 CSI from ghostty are sent for Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V
bindkey '^[[99;6u' zle-copy-to-clipboard
bindkey '^[[118;6u' zle-paste-from-clipboard