I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste
, pbcopy
and launchctl
.
Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?
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Chris Johnsen has a good writeup of what causes this problem on github.
His tools work, but a better solution, if you have homebrew installed to:
brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
Then in your ~/.tmux.conf
add these lines:
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh" # or bash
bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
bind C-v run "reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste | tmux load-buffer - && tmux paste-buffer"
The first line ensures your shell can talk to pbpaste
, pbcopy
and launchctl
now with no worries.
The second line lets you copy the tmux
paste buffer into the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-b control-c (replace control-b with your tmux prefix key).
The third line will directly paste the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-v. As a side-effect it copies the Mac's paste buffer into tmux
's paste buffer.
I'd prefer if I could nuke tmux
's paste buffer entirely and have it paste directly into the Mac`s paste buffer, but... oh well.