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Tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard. Works on OSX, Linux and Cygwin.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2015-08-23 · latest 2026-04-13

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  1. Maybe you could try this - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by ihowlatthemoon · 2026-04-13 · in Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
  2. …copy any highlighted output to my system clipboard. Makes searching and copying output super fast https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by philo_sophia · 2025-03-05 · in Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
  3. …screen and add the tmux-yank plugin to directly copy highlighted text onto your system clipboard https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by philo_sophia · 2025-03-05 · in Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
  4. …supports the standard.) -- 1: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html#MOUSE_... 2: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank 3: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard
  5. I can highly recommend these tmux plugins that enhance the selection experience: - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-open - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat
  6. …all the information you need is in the GitHub repository previously linked. Here it is again: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank The specific section you're looking for is here: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank#mouse-support…
    comment by diggan · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals
  7. …that I wanted to copy. I found https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump , which works really well with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by tpei · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals
  8. …a tmux plugin for it https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump Maybe it helps you too. Works great with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by schasse · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals
  9. …plugin and why I shared it. Tagline from GitHub: > Tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank I could understand if you don't like tmux for other reasons (being a heavy mouse-user for example),…
    comment by diggan · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals
  10. …there are plugins to integrate the tmux clipboard with the system clipboard. I use tmux-yank: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by rhinoceraptor · 2019-10-30 · in A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)
  11. …You can also look into the tmux-yank [0] plugin, which copies to the native system clipboard. [0] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
    comment by karlding · 2017-08-12 · in Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
  12. …hit V to enter visual mode, select some text and hit y. Now that text is in the system clipboard. https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
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    Tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard
    story by brunosutic · 2015-08-23 · 0 comments