Isn't copying without the formatting just a `<your diff command> | pbcopy` away?

genewitch · 2025-02-25T14:11:43 1740492703

I have Gemini set to decipher HN comments that I don't immediately understand. This is a macos only command `pbcopy`?

Aside: Gemini mentioned it didn't want me to ask it questions about bikeshedding what shade of blue on a website header so I think it's got our number.

Macha · 2025-02-25T23:28:47 1740526127

Though, if you have a preferred shade of blue, you can actually use it for the HN header in your user settings.

chuckadams · 2025-02-25T15:26:40 1740497200

Yes pbcopy is a mac thing. On Linux, there are of course many different commands in different environments/distros. xsel, xclip, wl-clipboard, wlclip to name a few.

On windows, powershell has Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard, and cmd.exe has `wsl` to fix the issue of having used cmd.exe to begin with.

jeeva · 2025-02-27T10:32:55 1740652375

There's also clip(.exe) on every version of Windows I've bumped into recently.

ramses0 · 2025-02-26T01:34:28 1740533668

On Linux I made a ~/bin/pbcopy that does the right thing because all the Linux commands are stupidly difficult to remember compared to "pbcopy".