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Thomas,
Ironically I'm in the middle of patching mintty to support OSC clipboard
key escapes. I got the save to clipboard working (just need to decode the
base64 data).
Why doesn't tmux support the get clipboard escape? It's the same key escape
as set clipboard but instead of base 64 data use a question mark.
Thanks,
Saad
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> wrote:
> This adds an entry on how best to handle copying a selection in tmux to the
> sustem's clipboard.
> ---
> FAQ | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
> index 41b917c..79d982b 100644
> --- a/FAQ
> +++ b/FAQ
> @@ -396,5 +396,45 @@ configuration file:
> Or the default window options:
>
> $ tmux -Lfoo -f/dev/null start\; show -gw
> +
> +* How do I copy a selection from tmux to the system's clipboard?
> +
> +tmux has no direct way to have selections made within it, to put that
> +contents on to the system's clipboard. For one, that would require
> linking
> +against X which isn't something that's desired, and secondly, since tmux
> +runs on systems such as MacOS, that handles copying to the clipboard
> +differently as well.
> +
> +What tmux does have is direct support for XTerm and syncing selections
> made
> +in tmux to copy that to the clipboard. However, this relies on escape
> +sequences which the terminal understands to put the selection in tmux in
> the
> +clipboard; and since not everyone uses XTerm as their client, this
> probably
> +won't work very well (turning on the set-clipboard option will often mess
> +with tmux in the case where the client isn't XTerm). More on this method
> is
> +in the man page.
> +
> +For those users using rxvt-unicode (urxvt), there is an unofficial Perl
> +extension plugin which can be used to mimick the auto-selection within
> tmux
> +to the system's clipboard---which uses the same OSC sequences as XTerm
> would
> +do. This also requires the tweaking of tmux's 'terminal-overrides'
> +settings. All of this can be found here:
> +
> + http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/urxvt/
> +
> +For other clients which aren't XTerm, and are running on *BSD/Linux then
> the
> +general principle is to have a binding which puts the saved contents from
> a
> +tmux selection to the clipboard using xclip(1) as in:
> +
> + bind c-y run -b "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i"
> +
> +For MacOS users, then the reattach-to-usernamespace method allows for
> +pbcopy/pbpaste to be used. More information how to do this can be found
> +here:
> +
> + https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard
> +
> +An example binding for this might be:
> +
> + bind y run-shell "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh -c 'tmux
> show-buffer | pbcopy'"
>
> $Id$
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
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