Vim & Tmux & System Clipboard
UPDATE: Fortunately, it seems some recent updates to vim and tmux have made this dead simple, in your .vimrc, add set clipboard^=unnamed
If you happen to be on older version or are having issues otherwise, here are the previous instructions that may still be useful for you:
brew install macvim --override-system-vim && brew linkappsbrew install reattach-to-user-namespace- in .vimrc:
set clipboard=unnamed - in .tmux.conf:
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l bash"
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Written by Andrew Thal
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brew install macvim now
thanks! updating
brew install macvim --override-system-vim && brew linkapps
This will alias vim, vi, view, vimdiff, etc.
To see all commands aliased, you might try ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep macvim
thanks @smlstvnh, updated!
Awesome! Automatically sending to tmux when I yank from vim is something I had been looking for, it totally worked. Thanks.
is there an equivalent package in apt-get ?
@louisgmoore so sorry for the delayed response! there was something funky going on with coderwall and it wouldn't let me comment, but now I can :).
From a quick search it looks like you might have some luck with xclip or xsel, but I haven't tested it myself.
