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CopyTo(destination)

Copy the selection to the specified clipboard buffer.

Possible values for destination are:

  • Clipboard - copy the text to the system clipboard.
  • PrimarySelection - Copy the text to the primary selection buffer (applicable to X11 and some Wayland systems only)
  • ClipboardAndPrimarySelection - Copy to both the clipboard and the primary selection.
config.keys = {
  {
    key = 'C',
    mods = 'CTRL',
    action = wezterm.action.CopyTo 'ClipboardAndPrimarySelection',
  },
}
Since: Version 20220319-142410-0fcdea07

The functionality described in this section requires version 20220319-142410-0fcdea07 of wezterm, or a more recent version.

PrimarySelection is now also supported on Wayland systems that support primary-selection-unstable-v1 or the older Gtk primary selection protocol.