
## Summary Comprehensive repository cleanup focusing on plugin dependency management, documentation improvements, and git tracking optimization. ## Key Changes ### 🔧 Core Infrastructure - Synchronized all nu-* dependencies across plugins for version consistency - Enhanced upstream tracking and automation systems - Removed nushell directory from git tracking for cleaner repository management ### 📚 Documentation - Significantly expanded README.md with comprehensive development guides - Added detailed workflow documentation and command references - Improved plugin collection overview and usage examples ### 🧹 Repository Cleanup - Removed legacy bash scripts (build-all.sh, collect-install.sh, make_plugin.sh) - Streamlined automation through unified justfile and nushell script approach - Updated .gitignore with nushell directory and archive patterns - Removed nushell directory from git tracking to prevent unwanted changes ### 🔌 Plugin Updates - **nu_plugin_image**: Major refactoring with modular architecture improvements - **nu_plugin_hashes**: Enhanced functionality and build system improvements - **nu_plugin_highlight**: Updated for new plugin API compatibility - **nu_plugin_clipboard**: Dependency synchronization - **nu_plugin_desktop_notifications**: Version alignment - **nu_plugin_port_extension & nu_plugin_qr_maker**: Consistency updates - **nu_plugin_kcl & nu_plugin_tera**: Submodule synchronization ### 🏗️ Git Tracking Optimization - Removed nushell directory from version control for cleaner repository management - Added comprehensive .gitignore patterns for build artifacts and archives ## Statistics - 2,082 files changed - 2,373 insertions, 339,936 deletions - Net reduction of 337,563 lines (primarily from removing nushell directory tracking) ## Benefits - Complete version consistency across all plugins - Cleaner repository with optimized git tracking - Improved developer experience with streamlined workflows - Enhanced documentation and automation - Reduced repository size and complexity 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
📋 nu_plugin_clipboard
A nushell plugin for interacting with the clipboard, allowing you to copy/paste text, objects, and tables.
✨ Features
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clipboard copy
: Copies input text to the clipboard.-
Daemon Behavior: Since version 0.105.2, using env variables will try to detect display server. This config will override this behavior, if you need to override this please report and issue:
$env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON = true
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To make this setting permanent, add it to your
config env
.
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clipboard paste
: Retrieves the current clipboard content.
⚠️ Important
If you face the error Error: × Clipboard Error: The clipboard contents were not available in the requested format...
Try disabling the daemon mode, as mentioned in #20.
📌 Usage Examples
Copying a string (supports only strings for now)
echo "test value" | clipboard copy
Using clipboard content
clipboard paste | echo $in
Copying tables and objects
- Tables and objects are internally converted to JSON.
- When pasting,
clipboard paste
tries to parse JSON into a table or object. - If parsing fails, the content is returned as a string.
$env | clipboard copy
clipboard paste
ps | clipboard copy
clipboard paste
🔧 Installation
🚀 Recommended: Using nupm
This method automatically handles dependencies and features:
git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_clipboard.git
nupm install --path nu_plugin_clipboard -f
⚙️ Supported Features
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use-wayland
: Prioritizes the Wayland API, but falls back to X11 if needed. -
enforce-daemon
: (Deprecated) Now always enabled on Linux. Disable with:$env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON = true
🛠️ Manual Compilation
git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_clipboard.git
cd nu_plugin_clipboard
cargo build -r
plugin add target/release/nu_plugin_clipboard
📦 Install via Cargo (using git)
cargo install --git https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_clipboard.git
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_clipboard
📦 Install via Cargo (crates.io) Not Recommended
- Since I live in Iran and crates.io won't let me update my packages like a normal person, most of the time crates.io is outdated.
cargo install nu_plugin_clipboard
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_clipboard