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Neovim

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For easy file editing, I’m using neovim, so editing is as simple as calling nvim on the file.

Install

Fedora

sudo dnf install neovim

WSL Clipboard integration

For Neovim’s clipboard integration, you have to decide whether you want native clipboard integration with Wayland/X11, or not.

As a rough measure, you probably want clipboard integration over Windows if you use, e.g., WezTerm installed on Windows to access WSL and you most likely want native clipboard integration for Wayland/X11 if you use an installation of a terminal emulator from out of WSL.

Note

This doesn’t really seem to be the case anymore, as I currently use Ghostty from within WSL, having no “native” solution installed, but rather win32yank on the Windows side, with it on my WSL PATH and copy/pasting works like a blast.

Clipboard via Windows

Set up win32yank and make sure that your Windows PATH (or specifically win32yank’s path) is available from within WSL.

Native clipboard

Set up Clipboard Handling.

Copilot

In my Dotfiles, specifically in my Neovim configuration, I configure Copilot.

If you have a GitHub account, Copilot should be available to you.

To authenticate with Copilot, you simply have to

  1. Run :Copilot auth within Neovim.
  2. Copy the displayed one-time-code.
  3. Go to https://github.com/login/device.
  4. Log into your GitHub account.
  5. Paste the previously copied one-time-code.
  6. Return to your Neovim instance.
  7. Wait until the popup closes.

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