How to copy a visidata cell to system clipboard on mac?

Question

I tried adding to configuration ~/.visidatarc

options.clipboard_copy_cmd = 'pbcopy w'

but when I copy then with y from visidata nothing is copied to system clipboard on mac.

How to copy to system clipboard on mac?

Answer 1

One can use the shortcut Shift+Y for copying data from visidata (as of version 2.5) to system clipboard on macOS.

In detail:

Table Action	Shortcut
Copy single cell (of current row and current column)	z Shift+Y
Copy selected cell(s) (of current column)	g z Shift+Y
Copy single row	Shift+Y
Copy selected row(s)	g Shift+Y

When copying rows, one has to confirm the format (e.g. csv or tsv).

There is no need to set up visidata options.