Vim and Tmux workshop - 06 - Tmux

run_tmux_copy

/usr/local/bin/tmux_copy &

tmux.md

To have OsX share the tmux clipboard, you need to run a script that syncs both buffers.

You can create a login item for you user that runs run_tmux_copy.

Contents of run_tmux_copy and tmux_copy are below.

Make sure to place them something useful, like /usr/local/bin.

The reasons for all of this are documented in the repo for the reattach-to-user-namespace command

tmux_copy

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/19398560514/how-to-copy-and-paste-with-tmux-on-mac-os-x

while true; do
  if [[ -n $(tmux showb 2> /dev/null) ]]; then
    $(tmux saveb -|pbcopy && tmux deleteb)
  fi
  sleep 0.5
done