Fix Nvim 'yank' not working

Published on: Sat May 16 2026

Tested on Hyprland

1. Determine what you use for clipboard.

On end-4 Illogical-Impulse (Quickshell) it is cliphist

2. Make sure you have needed dependency (this one for arch hyprland):

sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard

3. Edit nvim’s init.lua

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim
nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

add this:

vim.opt.clipboard = "unnamedplus"

Done :D