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How to copy and paste with tmux on Mac OS X

33 points by Croaky 15y ago

joh6nn 15y ago
could we please stop creating headlines that address everybody, when the content only addresses specific sub-groups? This headline should have ended with "on OS X". I seriously doubt i'm the only one who clicked through, only to discover it was completely irrelevant to me.
- Croaky 15y ago
  Ah, didn't think of that. Valid critique. Edited the headline.
iopuy 15y ago
This article is an intro to the screencast the author has created and is selling for $15 at https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/pages/tmux https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/pages/tmux . It is linked to at the bottom of the page. I really enjoy learning about new pieces of software but in my personal opinion $15 for a 26 minute screencast is kind of pricey.
- joshclayton 15y ago
  The screencast covers a lot of things, including workflow, key bindings, and tweaks to OS X to make you a faster developer. If you save ten minutes a day, you'll have made up the cost of the screencast in a day or two - which, in my opinion, is well worth it.
  - judofyr 15y ago
    Or you can buy the tmux book for $11 which tells pretty much the same: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
the-come-ons 15y ago
If you are on Linux, add this to your ~/.tmux.conf file. ##CLIPBOARD selection integration ##Requires prefix key before the command key #Copy tmux paste buffer to CLIPBOARD bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | xclip -i -selection clipboard" #Copy CLIPBOARD to tmux paste buffer and paste tmux paste buffer bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer -- \\"$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)\\"; tmux paste-buffer"
nixme 15y ago
reattach-to-user-namespace also fixes the following when running launchctl from tmux: Bug: launchctl.c:2408 (24957):13: (dbfd = open(g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR)) != -1 launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
j45 15y ago
Very handy little snippet, now I just have to relearn vim
JoelMcCracken 15y ago
google trends for tmux vs screen http://www.google.com/trends/?q=tmux,+screen+gnu,+shell+screen&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends/?q=tmux,+screen+gnu,+shell+scre...
- pinko 15y ago
  Great idea, but I think the word "screen" is too overloaded (even alongside GNU or shell) to be meaningful for comparison. The useful information here is simply that tmux mentions are going up: <http://google.com/trends/?q=tmux> http://google.com/trends/?q=tmux>.
__david__ 15y ago
Can someone explain the use case for using tmux locally on your mac (which is what this article seems to be about)? My only use for tmux right now is for when I am ssh-ing into remote computers: It gives me a saved state so I don't lose history or kill long running processes if I become disconnected and it also gives me multiple tabs. But it seems that if I am local then Terminal.app or iTerm2 already does all of that. So... why would I use tmux locally?
- joshclayton 15y ago
  I use it to organize everything I'm doing. iTerm2 does splits, and both iTerm2 and Terminal do tabs, but using Tmux decouples my workflow from the operating system I'm using. Additional benefits are being able to close my terminal at the end of the day and reattach the next morning with all my programs open, being able to script things I do often, etc.
tincholio 15y ago
I might be missing the point, but at least with Emacs, copy and paste works nicely from within tmux without doing any of this stuff. Using clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank (I have them bound to C-c c and C-c v) just works.

33 points by Croaky 15y ago

could we please stop creating headlines that address everybody, when the content only addresses specific sub-groups? This headline should have ended with "on OS X". I seriously doubt i'm the only one who clicked through, only to discover it was completely irrelevant to me.

Croaky 15y ago
Ah, didn't think of that. Valid critique. Edited the headline.

iopuy 15y ago

This article is an intro to the screencast the author has created and is selling for $15 at https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/pages/tmux https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/pages/tmux . It is linked to at the bottom of the page. I really enjoy learning about new pieces of software but in my personal opinion $15 for a 26 minute screencast is kind of pricey.

joshclayton 15y ago
The screencast covers a lot of things, including workflow, key bindings, and tweaks to OS X to make you a faster developer. If you save ten minutes a day, you'll have made up the cost of the screencast in a day or two - which, in my opinion, is well worth it.
- judofyr 15y ago
  Or you can buy the tmux book for $11 which tells pretty much the same: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux

the-come-ons 15y ago

If you are on Linux, add this to your ~/.tmux.conf file. ##CLIPBOARD selection integration ##Requires prefix key before the command key #Copy tmux paste buffer to CLIPBOARD bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | xclip -i -selection clipboard" #Copy CLIPBOARD to tmux paste buffer and paste tmux paste buffer bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer -- \\"$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)\\"; tmux paste-buffer"

nixme 15y ago

reattach-to-user-namespace also fixes the following when running launchctl from tmux: Bug: launchctl.c:2408 (24957):13: (dbfd = open(g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR)) != -1 launch_msg(): Socket is not connected

j45 15y ago

Very handy little snippet, now I just have to relearn vim

JoelMcCracken 15y ago

google trends for tmux vs screen http://www.google.com/trends/?q=tmux,+screen+gnu,+shell+screen&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends/?q=tmux,+screen+gnu,+shell+scre...

pinko 15y ago
Great idea, but I think the word "screen" is too overloaded (even alongside GNU or shell) to be meaningful for comparison. The useful information here is simply that tmux mentions are going up: <http://google.com/trends/?q=tmux> http://google.com/trends/?q=tmux>.

__david__ 15y ago

Can someone explain the use case for using tmux locally on your mac (which is what this article seems to be about)? My only use for tmux right now is for when I am ssh-ing into remote computers: It gives me a saved state so I don't lose history or kill long running processes if I become disconnected and it also gives me multiple tabs. But it seems that if I am local then Terminal.app or iTerm2 already does all of that. So... why would I use tmux locally?

joshclayton 15y ago
I use it to organize everything I'm doing. iTerm2 does splits, and both iTerm2 and Terminal do tabs, but using Tmux decouples my workflow from the operating system I'm using. Additional benefits are being able to close my terminal at the end of the day and reattach the next morning with all my programs open, being able to script things I do often, etc.

tincholio 15y ago

I might be missing the point, but at least with Emacs, copy and paste works nicely from within tmux without doing any of this stuff. Using clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank (I have them bound to C-c c and C-c v) just works.