How about this instead?
diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 41b917c..f44384b 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -396,5 +396,25 @@ configuration file:
Or the default window options:
$ tmux -Lfoo -f/dev/null start\; show -gw
+
+* How do I copy a selection from tmux to the system's clipboard?
+
+When running in xterm(1), tmux can automatically send copied text to the
+clipboard. This is controlled by the set-clipboard option and also needs this
+X resource to be set:
+
+ XTerm*disallowedWindowOps: 20,21,SetXprop
+
+For rxvt-unicode (urxvt), there is an unofficial Perl extension here:
+
+ http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/urxvt/
+
+Otherwise a key binding using save-buffer and xclip (or xsel) works:
+
+ bind c-y run -b "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i"
+
+On OS X, reattach-to-usernamespace lets pbcopy/pbpaste work:
+
+ https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard
$Id$
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> This adds an entry on how best to handle copying a selection in tmux to the
> sustem's clipboard.
> ---
> FAQ | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
> index 41b917c..79d982b 100644
> --- a/FAQ
> +++ b/FAQ
> @@ -396,5 +396,45 @@ configuration file:
> Or the default window options:
>
> $ tmux -Lfoo -f/dev/null start\; show -gw
> +
> +* How do I copy a selection from tmux to the system's clipboard?
> +
> +tmux has no direct way to have selections made within it, to put that
> +contents on to the system's clipboard. For one, that would require linking
> +against X which isn't something that's desired, and secondly, since tmux
> +runs on systems such as MacOS, that handles copying to the clipboard
> +differently as well.
> +
> +What tmux does have is direct support for XTerm and syncing selections made
> +in tmux to copy that to the clipboard. However, this relies on escape
> +sequences which the terminal understands to put the selection in tmux in the
> +clipboard; and since not everyone uses XTerm as their client, this probably
> +won't work very well (turning on the set-clipboard option will often mess
> +with tmux in the case where the client isn't XTerm). More on this method is
> +in the man page.
> +
> +For those users using rxvt-unicode (urxvt), there is an unofficial Perl
> +extension plugin which can be used to mimick the auto-selection within tmux
> +to the system's clipboard---which uses the same OSC sequences as XTerm would
> +do. This also requires the tweaking of tmux's 'terminal-overrides'
> +settings. All of this can be found here:
> +
> + http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/urxvt/
> +
> +For other clients which aren't XTerm, and are running on *BSD/Linux then the
> +general principle is to have a binding which puts the saved contents from a
> +tmux selection to the clipboard using xclip(1) as in:
> +
> + bind c-y run -b "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i"
> +
> +For MacOS users, then the reattach-to-usernamespace method allows for
> +pbcopy/pbpaste to be used. More information how to do this can be found
> +here:
> +
> + https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard
> +
> +An example binding for this might be:
> +
> + bind y run-shell "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh -c 'tmux
> show-buffer | pbcopy'"
>
> $Id$
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