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

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 …

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.

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.

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 LightTabl…

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

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Copying by hotkey doesn't work when Vim plugin enabled

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