Tips and Tricks Terminal Vim Integration with Wayland

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Took a little while to figure this out, but mostly seamless integration of terminal Vim clipboard with Wayland for when you use a version of Vim without clipboard functionality compiled in:

autocmd TextYankPost * call system('wl-copy', @")
autocmd FocusGained * call timer_start(0, {t -> execute('let @" = system("wl-paste")')})

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