I see a lot of explanations of how to make vim copy to the system clipboard (involving xclip for linux or pbcopy or OSX), but I would like to yank to the tmux clipboard. To be clear, what I want is to position my cursor over a word and hit something like "*yiw and then hop over to another window with tmux (maybe one where I want to paste a large URL for curl or wget) and press Ctrl-B ] to paste (or with whatever tmux prefix key you use). Thanks for help that any one can offer. It would be awesome if this is possible.
Vim yank to tmux clipboard
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You might need to change your Terminal to send ^h when you type Backspace.
In Terminal's preferences, the setting is part of the profile, so you can set up a dedicated profile for your SSH connection to that RHEL5 system.
You might have hit Ctrl+S, which turns off flow control in terminals and stops the terminal from accepting input. It is reenabled by pressing Ctrl+Q.
Best Answer
It is not clear why you should use tmux clipboard.
I find it easier to copy to system clipboard from vim or any other application and them paste it on tmux. You could try following on your ~/.tmux.conf:
This allows to paste from system clipboard to tmux using Ctrl-V.
For further information on this approach: Tmux: Clipboard Integration.