Copying by hotkey doesn't work when Vim plugin enabled

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Copy doesn’t work when using the keyboard shortcuts. In both Insert and Normal mode.
Right clicking and then selecting Copy does work.

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Copying should work.

What OS are you on? What version of Obsidian?

If you temporarily disable Vim Mode plugin, does Copy using the shortcut work? (This shouldn’t matter. Just testing.)

I am fairly sure that Copy and Paste are not Obsidian shortcuts, but are handled by your OS. So there is also a chance you have an app or service or hotkey manager installed that might be interfering with that shortcut.

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I’m on Ubuntu 20.04 and version 0.8.8

Without the Vim keybindings enabled Copy works as it should.

If it would be handled by the OS I would experience problems in other applications as well, which I don’t.

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I moved this into a separate bug report.

Summary: The Copy hotkey Ctrl-C does not seem to work in Ubuntu, when the Vim Mode plugin is loaded. It doesn’t work in either Insert or Normal Modes.

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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: VIM Mode - Quality of Life Improvements

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This is a problem in CodeMirror, see [vim] Ability to perform a copy · Issue #3075 · codemirror/CodeMirror · GitHub

It affects other applications built on CodeMirror too, for example Enable Ctrl+C copy selection while in vim-mode · Issue #688 · LightTable/LightTable · GitHub

Based on the LightTable report, it seems like it should be fixable and/or workaroundable in Obsidian

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If yanking suits your case, you can enable system clipboard with VimRC plugin: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support

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