The system clipboard
Two more special registers connect Helix to the world outside the editor.
+ is the system clipboard, and * is the primary selection on systems
that have one. In a terminal, "+y copies text to your OS clipboard, and
"+p pastes from it. Space-y and Space-p are shortcuts for the same
thing.
In the editor on this page, there’s a caveat. This build of Helix runs in
your browser and doesn’t bridge to the OS clipboard. So + and * behave
like ordinary registers here: "+y followed by "+p round-trips inside
Helix, but nothing reaches your real clipboard.
Pasting from your OS clipboard does still work, through the browser’s own shortcut: enter insert mode, then press Ctrl-V (Cmd-V on a Mac) and the text is typed into the buffer for you.
Work through the checklist below.