On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:04:12AM -0500, gca...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was looking for solutions to pain points I felt. Adrian and Thomas have
> replied with suggestions. If only copy/paste could seamless work with os
> clipboard, like "set clipboard=unnamed" in vim, it'll be perfect!
Even on Linux alone, there's no set way of doing this. XTerm allows for
selections made in its own window to enter the PRIMARY selection buffer,
which in this case tmux makes use of via escape sequences. The problem here
is that only XTerm supports those; I've yet to see *any* other terminal
emulator which does this (such as rxvt-unicode) which is odd, because some
of them even profess to emulating XTerm.
So in that situation, many people end up using some form of xclip/xsel
option to do this -- but doing that won't necessarily work when trying to
put the contents in to GTK/QT applications (I use a program called
'parcellite' to synchronise both selections/clipboards between
applications). That's just on Linux alone (and to some extent BSD).
There's no guarantee that any of those mechanisms will be available when
tmux loads.
Look towards Mac for a moment, and that problem is even more annoying. I
think someone has written some wrapper program to allow for pb{copy,paste}
-- but that's a hack.
Unlike Vim which adds a shit load of support code, trying to do this from
within tmux would bloat the osdep-* code significantly.
So it's not really an option to support this "seamlessly" -- and AFAIK,
regardlee of how many people this annoys, they've all found some solution to
this which works, even if it's resorting to using the terminal's own
selection mechanism via "shift".
-- Thomas Adam
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