Copy to system clipboard

I know that browsers prohibit the use of custom keybindings to copy to and paste from the system clipboard. We are therefore limited to use the browser keybindings, which usually are CTRL-C and CTRL-V by default.

My problem now is that I cannot manage to copy to the system clipboard with CTRL-C. With the jupyter-vim-binding I was able to do it by selecting text in visual mode (or with the mouse) then pressing CTRL-C. That doesn’t work with this extension. Though pasting works by pressing CTRL-V in insert mode.

Any idea? In case I missed something, how are we supposed to copy to the system clipboard?

PS: thanks for this great extension! 👍 It was the feature that prevented me to switch from the notebook to the lab.

[jwkvam]

@mdeff @joelostblom Perhaps what I can do in the meantime is only bind ctrl-c for mac users since they have cmd-c for copy.

[joelostblom]

I just discovered that Shift + Right click works for bringing up the standard browser right click menu within jupyter-lab with a copy text option, so there is at least a way to copy for now.