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-

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.