ABOUT

vmux-clipboard is a vim plugin that enables yanking and pasting text between vim buffers across panes/windows of tmux, byobu, screen, and other terminal multiplexers

INSTALLATION

• Using pathogen:
  • clone the vmux-clipboard repo into ~/.vim/bundle
  • make sure to include execute pathogen#infect() in your .vimrc
• Manually:
  • put plugin/vmux_clipboard.vim into ~/.vim/plugin/ and py/vmux_clipboard.py into ~/.vim/py/

USAGE

• running :WriteToVmuxClipboard will make your most recently yanked text available across multiplexer panes
• running :ReadFromVmuxClipboard will make the text in your vmux-clipboard available in the " register, which can be put with p
• add maps for the :WriteToVmuxClipboard and :ReadFromVmuxClipboard commands. Example:
  • yy + ,y in one pane, ,p + p in another:

  •    let mapleader = ","
       map <silent> <leader>y :WriteToVmuxClipboard<cr>
       map <silent> <leader>p :ReadFromVmuxClipboard<cr>
    

REQUIREMENTS

• vim compiled with either +python or +python3
  • check with vim --version | grep python