Yank script doesn't work for me

[austinbutler]

A modified version here does, though: https://github.com/JSteeleIR/dotfiles-public/blob/public/scripts/yank

I'm using Alacritty on a macOS host with tmux running locally and also remotely in a NixOS host.

Opening this issue since your blog seems like practically the source of truth on nested tmux copy/paste 😛 . Maybe there are some improvements worth pulling into your own yank script.

Testing by running echo "Testing" | ./yank.sh on the remote server, then pasting on the local host.

[sunaku]

Thanks for your feedback. I'll need to find a macOS host so I can try reproducing this issue. The script you linked to explicitly redirects the escape sequence to $SSH_TTY whereas mine doesn't (because technically, doing that should be redundant). Could you please check whether the latest (updated) version of my script still triggers the problem in your environment?

[austinbutler]

Sorry, but I no longer have a Mac laptop for work so I can't test anything.

[JonathanWheeler]

For others who may stumble across this, try adding the following to your .tmux.conf:

set-window-option -g allow-passthrough on

(Then reload your config with tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf, or killing and restarting tmux with tmux kill-server; tmux.)

I've submitted pull request #8 to partially address this.

Alternatively, try commenting out this line in yank:
test -n "$TMUX" -o -z "${TERM##screen*}" && esc="\033Ptmux;\033$esc\033\\"

[sunaku]

Excellent! 👌 Great catch, thank you. 🙏 I'll adjust the documentation a bit and merge soon. 🤓