you need to do it the other way round, create a shell script with tmux commands
in CVS HEAD you can do eg tmux saveb -|xsel to copy the buffer to the clipboard On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:22:08AM -0700, Craig Citro wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this gets asked all the time, but a (really) cursory search > through the archives didn't turn anything up. Is there a way to define > my own functions in my .tmux.conf and bind keys to them? In > particular, I want to be able to do a sequence of commands that's a > mix of tmux commands and shell commands, so it won't suffice to just > make a shell script and bind a key to run-shell my-command. > > In particular, the case I want is to be able to easily share between a > tmux paste buffer and the system clipboard; is there a simple way to > set this up? The best I've figured out is to save-buffer to a file, > then xclip -i that file for one direction, and xclip -o ; load-buffer > for the reverse direction. Is there a classier way to do this? (I'm > fine obliterating my x selection when I do a tmux copy.) > > Thanks! > -cc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users