When I try to copy and paste between tmux sessions or windows, one problem is that I usually have line numbers displayed when using Vim and tmux copies the line numbers:
Is there any way to avoid this?
asked Dec 20, 2017 at 23:20
1 Answer
tmux has the rectangle-toggle command for this. It's not fully explained in the man page; it only appears in the list of commands available during copy mode:
Command vi emacs [...] rectangle-toggle v R
It switches between the line-based selection you demonstrate, and rectangular selection (similar to Vim's blockwise visual mode). In the latter mode, you can start your selection at static and extend down+right without taking in anything to the left (the line numbers).
answered Feb 13, 2018 at 10:56
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I can only seem to make this work with Emacs mod. When I do
C-bthen:set-window-option -g mode-keys vithen try theC-b [thenvtoC-space, it doesn't seem to work.– FilBot3Nov 25, 2020 at 16:40 -
@FilBot3 It works for me (tmux 3.1c). In vi mode the begin-selection binding is space rather than C-space, does that help? Nov 26, 2020 at 19:14
set nonu, or"+y...vim-tmux-navigatordoes; there may be a way to havetmux save-bufer - | somethingthatstripsthenumbersset when invimundertmux(though that may require routing through the os clipboard, or a correspondingtmux set-buffer...)