Select and Copy from Remote Session

[faxotherapy]

Hi,
thanks a lot for the plug-in. I'd like to select text and copy (transfer) it from a remote session to my local session. Although the method presented below works successfully for me I'd like to know your opinion on its last two steps; steps 3 and 4.

The first boring steps:

1. Setup network listener on my local machine (MacOS, Linux). I use, for example, port 9999 as listen port.
2. SSH to my remote machine with remoteforward=9997 localhost:9999 set in my SSH config file. FYI: if no config file, then: ssh -R 9997:localhost:9999 …@…

The fun part…

3. I add tmux-yank plug-in on both my local and remote machines.
4. I insert set -g @override_copy_command 'nc localhost 9997' in my remote tmux.conf file and reload.

[bruno-]

Hey,

that looks pretty cool. I think the last 2 steps are fine.
Feel free to submit a docs PR and expand on this so others can do similar things. I propose making it a markdown file docs/copy_from_remote_session.md

[NitroCao]

Hi @faxotherapy , I followed the 4 steps but it still did not work, can you describe the first step more detailedly?

[faxotherapy]

Hello, I only have implemented the function on my MacOS platform. I haven't tried under GNU/Linux.

I created a file called local.pbcopy.9999.plist with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>local.pbcopy.9999</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/usr/bin/pbcopy</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/pb9999.out</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/pb9999.err</string>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Listeners</key>
        <dict>
            <key>SockNodeName</key>
            <string>localhost</string>
            <key>SockServiceName</key>
            <string>9999</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Wait</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Then, I put the file in folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents so that the listener is enabled every time a user session is started. However, for the current session, I can start it immediately with:

$ cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ launchctl load local.pbcopy.9999.plist
$ launchctl list | grep 9999
-       0       local.pbcopy.9999

unload to mute the listening port for the current session.