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According to :h clipboard-wsl in neovim,

For Windows WSL, try this g:clipboard definition:

let g:clipboard = {
    \   'name': 'WslClipboard',
    \   'copy': {
    \      '+': 'clip.exe',
    \      '*': 'clip.exe',
    \    },
    \   'paste': {
    \      '+': 'powershell.exe -c [Console]::Out.Write($(Get-Clipboard -Raw).tostring().replace("`r", ""))',
    \      '*': 'powershell.exe -c [Console]::Out.Write($(Get-Clipboard -Raw).tostring().replace("`r", ""))',
    \   },
    \   'cache_enabled': 0,
    \ }

I have my wsl.conf not to append $PATH, so I modified that so pathes in the script will be full path. My powershell has a space in its path so I'm trying to escape it, but never succeed.

For example,

  • Double-quoting the whole path like '"/mnt/c/Program Files/PowerShell/7/pwsh.exe" ...' results in
    E475: Invalid value for argument cmd: '"/mnt/c/Program' is not executable error.
  • Quoting just the space like '/mnt/c/Program" "Files/PowerShell/7/pwsh.exe ...' results in almost same error except "/mnt/c/Program is /mnt/c/Program".
  • Escaping the space with \ like '/mnt/c/Program\ Files/PowerShell/7/pwsh.exe ...' causes similar error too.

Why does it happen? How can I avoid it?

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  • This part of neovim source code is quite tricky. You might think (I certainly did) that nvim will execute a shell command, but that's not the case. I forgot exactly what the implementation is, so can't help you on escaping-slashes. But I am using a shell script to avoid this kind of situation. And invoking pwsh to use clipboard will be unnecessarily time-consuming (try it yourself and see how long it takes to execute a command through a new instance of pwsh). It's far easier to use paste directly.
    – 3N4N
    Dec 26, 2022 at 10:17
  • Here is my g:clipboard dictionary: sourcehut link. And here is the 'wslyank' script: sourcehut link.
    – 3N4N
    Dec 26, 2022 at 10:19
  • In my environment there is no /mnt/c/Windows/System32/paste.exe. How can I get it?
    – Dugesia7
    Dec 26, 2022 at 10:46
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    Good question. I thought it came with Windows by default, but, after searching the internet, apparently not. I don't know how it came in my Windows 11. I didn't install anything. BTW, neovim ships 'win32yank' with it as well. Check in the bin/ folder. You can use that instead of 'clip.exe' and 'paste.exe'.
    – 3N4N
    Dec 26, 2022 at 10:55
  • I built neovim by myself so I got win32yank.exe from github. It worked, thank you!
    – Dugesia7
    Dec 27, 2022 at 10:49

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Reset to default
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  1. Split command by hand, e.g. '+': ['/full path to/pwsh', '-c', 'args']

  2. Learn how to create symlinks and have no worries ever

  3. Drop pwsh as it's too slow. Just anything else will do better.

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  • I confirmed that first one worked (though I don't know why). But I'll use another mean for speed reason. Thank you!
    – Dugesia7
    Dec 27, 2022 at 10:55

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