I was just wishing it could work like how vim worked. If it requires a lot of
work and creates other problems, I'm totally ok with the workarounds. Thanks a
lot for the hard work you put into tmux. I really appreciate it.
- Cao
On Dec 21, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:04:12AM -0500, gca...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I was looking for solutions to pain points I felt. Adrian and Thomas have
>> replied with suggestions. If only copy/paste could seamless work with os
>> clipboard, like "set clipboard=unnamed" in vim, it'll be perfect!
>
> Even on Linux alone, there's no set way of doing this. XTerm allows for
> selections made in its own window to enter the PRIMARY selection buffer,
> which in this case tmux makes use of via escape sequences. The problem here
> is that only XTerm supports those; I've yet to see *any* other terminal
> emulator which does this (such as rxvt-unicode) which is odd, because some
> of them even profess to emulating XTerm.
>
> So in that situation, many people end up using some form of xclip/xsel
> option to do this -- but doing that won't necessarily work when trying to
> put the contents in to GTK/QT applications (I use a program called
> 'parcellite' to synchronise both selections/clipboards between
> applications). That's just on Linux alone (and to some extent BSD).
> There's no guarantee that any of those mechanisms will be available when
> tmux loads.
>
> Look towards Mac for a moment, and that problem is even more annoying. I
> think someone has written some wrapper program to allow for pb{copy,paste}
> -- but that's a hack.
>
> Unlike Vim which adds a shit load of support code, trying to do this from
> within tmux would bloat the osdep-* code significantly.
>
> So it's not really an option to support this "seamlessly" -- and AFAIK,
> regardlee of how many people this annoys, they've all found some solution to
> this which works, even if it's resorting to using the terminal's own
> selection mechanism via "shift".
>
> -- Thomas Adam
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