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		anitil on April 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq Do you know a way to copy the current selection in jless to the paste buffer? I find myself narrowing down a query for jq using jless but then having to manually remember the query to then jump to my terminal.

CodeIsTheEnd on April 27, 2022 [–]

You can use `yq` to copy a jq-style path to currently focused node to your clipboard! (I’m the author of jless.)

There are a couple other copy variants as well:

https://jless.io/user-guide.html#copying

anitil on April 28, 2022 | [–]

Oh fantastic thankyou! And thank you for jless!

I was running 0.7.1 rather than 0.8.0, so will upgrade now

Edit: Works great!

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