rcp
codeberg.org
Short OSC52 copy program in rust

I have been searching for a simple way to copy loads of text from remote servers for a while. This includes files, but is sometimes also only multiple lines from stdout of a program. Oftentimes this is kinda hard to do in terminal emulators, so I wrote a very small program to copy text via Operating System Commands.

This allows the terminal emulator itself to copy the text directly into the host clipboard. No x11 pass-through needed.

Lots of text editors like vim (with oscyank-plugin) or helix already have a functionality like that, but opening large files just to copy them is stupid (also not all servers I admin have the oscyank or helix even installed).

If you want to know, if your terminal emulator supports osc52, please refer to the oscyank-repo, they have a nice list.

  • RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    7 months ago
    • Don’t use "*" dep version requirements.
    • Add Cargo.lock to version control.
    • Why read to string if you’re going to base64-encode and use Vec<u8> later anyway?
    • Black616Angel@feddit.deOP
      0·
      7 months ago

      All good points. I will address them in a later version.

      The Cargo.lock thing is weird though, but apparently the builtin .gitignore of codeberg/forgejo has Cargo.lock in it.