Support Internal Copy and Paste inside VS Code Dev Container

[cmcnicoll]

Current behavior

• ctrl+c and ctrl+x:
  These commands throw the following error:

   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'clip.exe'
  

• ctrl+v and ctrl+u:
  These commands throw the following error:

   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'powershell.exe'
  

• shift+insert and right-click:
  These paste methods work correctly.

Environment

I am using Windows 11 with Docker Desktop. I have tried several suggestions from the troubleshooting guide, but they did not resolve the issue.

Questions

1. If I install xclip in my Dockerfile, can I use a config file to override the current behavior?
2. Alternatively, is the solution to use Xming as discussed in this thread?

Thanks!

[tconbeer]

I think something changed recently with pyperclip, or with the way VS code terminal (in WSL) sets some of its environment - I hit this issue myself yesterday.

Right now we only catch pyperclip errors, and the other bubble up, including OSErrors. We should just catch all errors on copy/paste and fall back to using the internal clipboard only.

(In other words this is a bug, and is a pretty easy fix)

[cmcnicoll]

I see you fixed this in #649. Thanks @tconbeer!