Installing the vimrc community plugin and adding a .obsidian.vimrc file at the root of the vault with the contents “set clipboard=unnamed” is a workaround. But it isn’t wonderful, whereas most of Obsidian is beautiful and generally easy to use.
What I’m trying to do
I’d like to use vim mode without having to install a community plugin to make copy/paste work.
It has been documented before that copy/paste is kind of broken when toggling vim mode on. The only way to “export” highlighted text to another app is to right-click with mouse & use the pop-up menu.
I’d suggest an option to make copy-to-clipboard something that can be toggled, but if that is not possible or doesn’t fit the design goals, I think a default-working copy-to-system-clipboard would be a generous alternative.
Only workaround that seems to work on my Win11 machine is manually typing :unmap <C-c> upon starting Obsidian. The same line doesn’t seem to do anything from inside the .obsidian.vimrc file the VimRC plugin provides. It’s not the worst workaround because it persists until a restart, which is infrequent for me, but it’s still less than ideal.
Apologize for reviving such a stale thread, but has there been any movement on this the past 3 years? Seems strange that it is still so bad to use this specific feature
While in vim mode, I expect using the built in yank function to copy my selection to my system clipboard.
Proposed solution
Enable a feature flag to allow users to yank items into their system clipboard clipboard. ${text} | wl-copy for linux, not sure the rest :\
Current workaround (optional)
The only work around now is to use ctrl+c, which isn’t terrible, my issues is primarily when using multiple programs with vim key-binds where there all act a bit different. So this would be a nice to have! (^-^)/