Clipboard error : Target STRING not available

[rtucek]

Hi,

I've just started using the plugin. When starting neovim, I get the error Clipboard error : Target STRING not available. This only affects neovim, but not vim.

Googling around, I found neovim/neovim#2642 (comment), which relates to logic of monitoring the system's clipboard via yankrinkg.

And indeed, setting let g:yoinkSyncSystemClipboardOnFocus = 0 prevents this error.
Is there a way of having this fixed, while retaining the monitoring of the system's clipboard?

[rtucek]

And yes, I'm using xclip.

[svermeulen]

What version of neovim?

[rtucek]

Hi @svermeulen, thank you for looking into this!

I use Neovim v0.4.3

However, I think I've made some mistake. I claimed let g:yoinkSyncSystemClipboardOnFocus = 0 would prevent showing up the error. However, I noticed that even having the setting disabled, the error shows up occasionally.

[svermeulen]

I can't seem to reproduce this. I am on osx though so maybe it doesn't appear there. I am guessing that it occurs during the yoink#onVimEnter method though based on your description. If it's annoying enough, you could uncomment the yoink#addCurrentDefaultRegToHistory line in yoink#onVimEnter since I don't expect that is totally necessary

[rtucek]

I've done more googling on the error and I think it's exclusively related to xclip (which is for interacting with the clipboard on Linux). So I doubt you'll encounter this on MacOS either. The issues I found don't relate to neovim/vim, but arise with similar interaction with the clipboard.

If you don't mind, I'll keep this issue open for more try'n'error feedback. I'll try out your suggested fix this weekend.

[yigitsever]

Seems like xclip is indeed the issue, removing it and using xsel fixed it for me but I have a xclip dependency. nvim tries to use xclip before xsel :h clipboard-tool. You can manually override the clipboard tool using;

let g:clipboard = {
      \   'name': 'xsel_override',
      \   'copy': {
      \      '+': 'xsel --input --clipboard',
      \      '*': 'xsel --input --primary',
      \    },
      \   'paste': {
      \      '+': 'xsel --output --clipboard',
      \      '*': 'xsel --output --primary',
      \   },
      \   'cache_enabled': 1,
      \ }

if you need to have both xsel and xclip AND you're using nvim. This snippet works with set clipboard+=unnamedplus as advised in :h clipboard.

[rtucek]

I haven't tried @yigitsever's solution, even several people report it fixed the issue for them. The main reasons are that I did not want to have xsel installed along xclip as well as the error wasn't that much an issue for me given it only happened sporadic.

However, after upgrading neovim I started encountering the error as reported in #28.

I think this is related to this issue... previously it just "used" to issue the small error Clipboard error : Target STRING not available but the more recent neovim version seems to have more troubles with it. I'm closing this issue though as we should continue with the thread in #28.