Adding this to my .tmux.conf as you suggest did seem to help, thanks!
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane select-pane -t = \; if-shell -F
"#{pane_in_mode}" { send-keys -M } { paste-buffer -p }
On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 10:12:44 UTC+1 Michael Grant wrote:
> % tmux list-keys | grep MouseDown2
> bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane select-pane -t = \;
> if-shell -F "#{||:#{pane_in_mode},#{mouse_any_flag}}" { send-keys -M } {
> paste-buffer -p }
>
> I didn't bind that, that is the default for me.
> On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 10:06:16 UTC+1 nicholas...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> > Not exactly true, I can paste the ESC character into Notepad++ just
>> fine, it shows up like `[esc]`. Similarrly for control characters. I
>> verified this in one of my many tests yesterday.
>>
>> That has nothing to do with it. How would the terminal know the
>> difference between a clipboard containing \033\\ and the intended
>> terminator?
>>
>> > I think I have the middle button bound to paste as you mention below,
>>
>> What is it bound to? Check with list-keys.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 10:00, Michael Grant <michae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > We can't add unused parameters because newer ncurses will validate
>>> the number of parameters.
>>>
>>> I see.
>>>
>>> > the clipboard may have characters that cannot be sent like \033.
>>>
>>> Not exactly true, I can paste the ESC character into Notepad++ just
>>> fine, it shows up like `[esc]`. Similarrly for control characters. I
>>> verified this in one of my many tests yesterday.
>>>
>>> I tried iconv today as suggested and couldn't find an encoding that
>>> pasted cleanly. I tried converting utf-8 to utf-16 and a few others but
>>> nothing helped. It looks like utf-8 to me. Like I said, it seems like
>>> something is encoding each byte of a multi-byte encoding, so there's
>>> probably nothing i'm going to be able to do here, the damage happens
>>> further downstream. This is not a tmux issue, it happens even outside
>>> tmux. I've opened an issue in the KiTTY github repo on this.
>>>
>>> Real OSC-52 support seems to be needed in KiTTY.
>>>
>>> How would one do the reverse? How would one get data into tmux's
>>> copy-buffer so that middle-click pasted from the Windows clipboard back to
>>> tmux? I have mouse mode enabled and on and I was using the middle click on
>>> the mouse. It pastes what's in tmux's copy buffer into tmux within tmux.
>>> I think I have the middle button bound to paste as you mention below, I
>>> didn't do anything special in my .tmux.conf to do this, seems like the
>>> default.
>>> On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 05:12:40 UTC+1 nicholas...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> %pX means push parameter X. We can't add unused parameters because
>>>> newer ncurses will validate the number of parameters. Anyway, sending raw
>>>> output won't work as a general solution because the clipboard may have
>>>> characters that cannot be sent like \033.
>>>>
>>>> My guess for UTF-8 would be that either Windows or kitty doesn't know
>>>> about UTF-8 in this output and is treating it as an 8-bit encoding. If you
>>>> can't configure this in the terminal you could maybe pass the text through
>>>> iconv to make it the right encoding so at least some characters would work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, 00:17 Michael Grant, <michae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Right, you're correct, the copy-buffer will never get control
>>>>> characters by copying using copy mode except newlines and multibyte
>>>>> unicode.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you (or someone) please explain those params in the tmux Ms
>>>>> terminfo entry? What's %p1%s? The %p2%s appears to be the base64
>>>>> encoded
>>>>> paste buffer. Maybe one could add a %p3%s which is the raw, not base64
>>>>> that could be used for this purpose? To be honest, this method would be
>>>>> cleaner and simpler than my script below.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I couldn't get this working earlier, I thought tmux was filtering
>>>>> the escape codes but the problem wasn't passthrough, it was that I wasn't
>>>>> sending the output to the correct tty.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the current wcl script:
>>>>>
>>>>> # start send to ansi printer
>>>>> echo -ne '\e[5i' >$SSH_TTY
>>>>>
>>>>> # send stdin to the outer terminal
>>>>> cat >$SSH_TTY
>>>>>
>>>>> # end ansi printer output
>>>>> echo -ne '\e[4i' >$SSH_TTY
>>>>>
>>>>> and in my .tmux.conf I have this line:
>>>>>
>>>>> bind -Tcopy-mode MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel
>>>>> '~/bin/wcl'
>>>>>
>>>>> and I set the ansi printer in KiTTY to print to the clipboard as per
>>>>> http://www.9bis.net/kitty/index.html#!pages/StdoutToClipboard.md
>>>>>
>>>>> and now, when I select text in a tmux window with a shell, it
>>>>> magically is available in my Windows clipboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I middle click in tmux, it's pasted back into the shell. Ahh, so
>>>>> nice! Used it already multiple times to write this post!
>>>>>
>>>>> This works but I do have a problem with unicode characters that are
>>>>> encoded as multiple bytes. When there's a unicode code-point that would
>>>>> encode to multiple characters in utf-8 on the sceen in tmux that I copy
>>>>> into the copy-buffer, then paste it into Windows, I get the multi bytes
>>>>> instead of the single character. For example, if i have '€100' in tmux,
>>>>> select it to copy it, then paste it back into windows, i get '€100'.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know where the problem lies here. The editor window
>>>>> (notepad++) on windows certainly supports unicode. The linux side
>>>>> certainly does too. Something along the way is re-encoding each of the
>>>>> characters in the multi-byte sequence as a single unicode codepoint and
>>>>> then sending a multi-byte character for each of those characters. It
>>>>> could
>>>>> be a manifestation of this printer to clipboard hack and if we can get
>>>>> the
>>>>> terminfo param to do raw output, maybe that would fix this? This might
>>>>> be
>>>>> a KiTTY issue. I am not sure and unsure how to debug this at the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way, there are some typos on the github documentation page on
>>>>> passthrough which I will try to find the time to do a PR. In the end, I
>>>>> didn't need to use passthrough though I did get it working and it does
>>>>> not
>>>>> help the unicode problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the first thing I tried was to copy something from the shell and
>>>>> then edit a file in the same tmux window with vi and paste it into the
>>>>> file. When I run an editor such as vi or emacs, tmux seems to switch to
>>>>> an
>>>>> alternate terminal screen within the terminal. By this, I mean, when I
>>>>> exit vi, instead of seeing the bottom part of the vi session still on my
>>>>> screen, the screen is returned to the way it was before entering the
>>>>> editor. The ansi term for this may be 'anternate screen'. Terminfo
>>>>> seems
>>>>> to calls this 'smcup'. There seems to be a separate paste buffer
>>>>> associated with the middle click when I'm in the alternete screen. Or
>>>>> maybe the editor is controlling this button? I'm not wholey sure.
>>>>> Whatever it is, I can't find a way to paste the tmux clipboard into the
>>>>> editor. This is reproducible without any of the copy-mode settings above
>>>>> and has nothing to do with Windows, and I don't think it has anything to
>>>>> do
>>>>> with KiTTY either, KiTTY seems to be sending middle click to tmux
>>>>> regardless of whether I'm in vi or at the shell prompt.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some way to paste from the copy-buffer into an editor such as
>>>>> vi or emacs, both in the same tmux? (Windows not involved here).
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, 7 June 2023 at 14:14:09 UTC+1 nicholas...@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, it needs to be encoded somehow in case the copied text contains
>>>>>> control characters. If you are sure it won't you could modify tmux to
>>>>>> skip
>>>>>> the base64 (look for b64_ntop in tty_set_selection)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You will never get control characters by copying using copy mode
>>>>>> except for newline, so I don't know what you mean when you say "tmux
>>>>>> filters out the escape characters".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can send to the terminal directly using the passthrough escape
>>>>>> sequence (see the FAQ).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 at 13:22, Michael Grant <michae...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I didn't want to hijack Eric's other thread which is clearly X based
>>>>>>> so starting a new thread here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm using Windows. I ssh into my linux servers with KiTTY and run
>>>>>>> tmux on the linux server. No, I do not want to install an X server on
>>>>>>> windows, thanks very much,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KiTTY (a windows program which is a fork of PuTTY) not to be
>>>>>>> confused with kitty, a terminal emulator that runs under linux. It
>>>>>>> seems
>>>>>>> the linux kitty supports OSC52 by the way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think KiTTY supports OSC52 (yet), at least, I've never
>>>>>>> gotten it to work. But it does support taking the output to the
>>>>>>> printer
>>>>>>> and putting that into the local clipboard:
>>>>>>> http://www.9bis.net/kitty/index.html#!pages/StdoutToClipboard.md
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Try 1, I added this to my .tmux.conf:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bind -Tcopy-mode MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel
>>>>>>> '~/bin/wcl'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, tmux filters out the escape characters, the raw
>>>>>>> output is not getting to KiTTY.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've tried pipping something to wcl outside tmux (as in, before
>>>>>>> starting tmux) and it does work, i can paste on the windows side.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First thought, is there some tmux command I can run which will echo
>>>>>>> something back to the raw terminal (KiTTY in my case)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Second thought was maybe I could craft an Ms entry for a terminfo
>>>>>>> override. This is what I tried:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Try 2, added this to my .tmux.conf instead:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> set -as terminal-overrides ',*-256color:Ms=\E[5i;%p2%s;\E[4i'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Restarted tmux (killed the server and restarted it). And it's
>>>>>>> tantelizingly close. I get base64 text on the windows side!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One difference between OSC52 and this KiTTY hack is that OSC52
>>>>>>> expects the string to be base64 encoded whereas printing to the printer
>>>>>>> doesn't expect that. Is there some param that sends the raw text, not
>>>>>>> base64 encoded?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Second, with this method, how can set the behavior to do the copy
>>>>>>> when I release the mouse button? (MouseDragEnd1Pane)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Michael Grant
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