copy-pipe always copies AND pipes.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:01:07PM +0100, Patrick Oscity wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all I???d like to say that I have used Tmux every single day for a 
> few
> months now and love it. Thanks for your work!
> 
> I am using copy-pipe to wire up Tmux with my system clipboard on OS X, but it
> somehow feels too complicated, because it requires an extra step to get the
> copied text into the system clipboard. As far as I know, there are two options
> (some key bindings might be specific to my configuration but you get the 
> idea):
> 
> a) Use mouse to drag selection
>    Hit Prefix-Y to write to system clipboard
> 
> b) Hit Prefix-V to go into selection mode
>    Use hjkl to move
>    Use v to start selection
>    Use hjkl to move
>    Hit Y to copy
>    Hit Prefix-Y to write to system clipboard
> 
> Case (a) feels awkward, because it requires an extra switch from the keyboard 
> to
> the mouse, even if you plan on using the mouse to paste the text to another
> window afterwards.
> 
> In case (b) there are already quite a number of keystrokes involved, so it 
> would
> be nice if we were able to remove the last step.
> 
> I think this problem could be solved by adding an option that would enable 
> users
> to run the copy-pipe command directly after exiting the selection, i. e.
> simultaneously to or directly after the text is copied to the tmux internal
> clipboard. Please let me know what you think about this.
> 
> Thanks for your time and your consideration!
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> PS: If you want more detail about my Tmux configuration, you can view it here
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/padde/dotfiles/b91a1d85b23e54e0ef65b6f55d817a4892df7a13/tmux.conf



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