nano System Copy

2026-07-30

I wrote a patch for the GNU nano text editor that allows you to copy highlighted text to the system clipboard. This was one of the features I missed after switching from micro to nano.

The patch can be seen here and can be applied with my otherPrograms.sh script in my dotfiles.

In theory I could have used an st patch to achieve this, but it would be sub-optimal as it might copy line numbers, and not handle newlines properly.