You can also bind some key to save the current commandline:
bind \ey 'commandline | pbcopy'

Maxim

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:12:41 +0400, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote:

> Copying & Pasting is a terminal-level thing. You can only copy the  
> actual text that's rendered on the terminal. So yes, you're going to get  
> the ellipsis/newline as well. Sadly, there's no avoiding that.
>
> However, you could work around this by piping text to `pbcopy`. If you  
> have a command in your command line that you want to copy, just hit
>
> ^Aecho '^E' | pbcopy
>
> Unless you have single-quotes in the command, this will send the whole  
> command-line to `pbcopy`. Alternatively, if this is a command you've  
> already executed and now you want to save it, you could use the  
> `history` command, e.g.
>
>     history | head -1 | pbcopy
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Aug 22, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Jon Clayden <jon.clay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Before raising an issue for this I wanted to check if this behaviour
>> is intended or unavoidable. It seems that when long commands are
>> copied and pasted between fish instances, the inserted ellipsis
>> characters and line breaks are pasted too, and interpreted. The
>> practical upshot of this is that only part of the command line is
>> pasted, with an ellipsis character, and then executed. This is quite
>> annoying. It seems to happen in both the beta release and current
>> master within Terminal.app on OS X 10.8.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any further light on this, please?
>>
>> Thanks, and all the best,
>> Jon
>>
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