Problems copying text on Mac OS Sierra

[rtfpessoa]

Mac OS Sierra, using latest tmux 2.2 with latest reattach-to-user-namespace 2.5.

Copy stopped working

If I do ls | pbcopy pbcopy is working but when I use y, Enter or mouse selection I can never copy the text.
I also enabled both options on iterm 2 to have integration.

I have this settings:

# set Zsh as your default Tmux shell
set-option -g default-shell /usr/local/bin/zsh

# Patch for OS X pbpaste and pbcopy under tmux.
set-option -g default-command "which reattach-to-user-namespace > /dev/null && reattach-to-user-namespace -l $SHELL || $SHELL"

# Setup 'v' to begin selection as in Vim
bind-key -t vi-copy r rectangle-toggle
bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-pipe "pbcopy"

# Update default binding of `Enter` to also use copy-pipe
unbind -t vi-copy Enter
bind-key -t vi-copy Enter copy-pipe "pbcopy"

# Mouse copy
bind-key -t vi-copy MouseDragEnd1Pane copy-pipe "pbcopy"

Any ideas?

[mbbill]

same here

[leojrfs]

same here for Terminal.app in Sierra

i used only pbaste (reattach-to-user-namespace), and it worked until the Sierra upgrade.

setw -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-pipe "pbcopy"
unbind -t vi-copy Enter
bind-key -t vi-copy Enter copy-pipe "pbcopy"

[earthboundkid]

I had this problem before I upgraded to Sierra.

One weird thing I noticed was an error message that flashed by about MouseDragEnd1Pane not being a recognized command. I will try to reproduce it.

[earthboundkid]

/.tmux.conf:47: unknown key: MouseDragEnd1Pane

[earthboundkid]

It looks like I had bind-key -t emacs-copy -T root MouseUp1Pane copy-pipe "pbcopy" but I needed to have bind-key -t emacs-copy -T root MouseUp1Pane copy-pipe "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy".

[rtfpessoa]

@carlmjohnson that actually works, but does not seem the correct way. Or is it?

Aren't we always reattaching to the namespace when copying?

[earthboundkid]

Well, here's a further wrinkle: I use two users on my Mac. On the main user, copying selected text works, but on my secondary user it does not. Maybe something is wrong with reattach?

[leojrfs]

reattach-to-user-namespace isnt necessary sometime since el capitan.

I only used pbcopy ever since, and it worked flawlessly.

[earthboundkid]

I don't think that is correct. I turned off reattach-to-user-namespace and pbpaste stopped working.

[leojrfs]

it worked for me in Terminal.app until Sierra...

If you have a El Capitan computer you can check that pbcopy/paste without the reattach-to-user-namespace works.

[keith]

Another related issue aside from copy is that even with El Cap, you couldn't access anything that uses tccdb for permissions access without reattach-to-user-namespace. But now even with it in Sierra you can no longer access contacts/reminders which I believe is related to the Sierra regression seen here. More info about this other stuff here: ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard#43

[maletor]

I have a similar issue where copying from vim inside tmux no longer works. Outside tmux it works fine.

[cilindrox]

Same here, piping to pbcopy broke after upgrading to Sierra.

Tmux v2.2 via Homebrew, using the EVENT_NOKQUEUE=1 setting as described here.

[joshuamcginnis]

I was experiencing the same issues post-upgrade, but finally got it working again this morning.

Here's what I did:

• brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Ensure the following is set in .tmux.conf:

set -g default-shell $SHELL 
set -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l ${SHELL}"

In .vimrc or ~/.config/nvim/init.vim (I use Neovim):

set clipboard=unnamed

Now all is well and I can copy/paste between system <-> vim sessions using vim keybindings and/or system ctrl+c / ctrl+p.