Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard

Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by vptr on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:54AM (#26671027)

I think a more killer feature of tmux is that you can send keystrokes to apps running inside tmux (with send-keys). It just opens a door for scripting CLI apps that otherwise would not be scriptable. e.g. irc clients and similar full screen apps.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by adverbly on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:29PM (#26676990)

Yep. This is a killer feature for me. I have a ton of scripts that open new split screens and ssh into things to tail logs or others that ssh, change users, start some other console/repl/shell, then run a few commands in that. I'm sure there's better ways to do it but it's been enough to speed up a lot of the simple repetitive things for me.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by ianthehenry on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:45AM (#26672409)

To add to this, I have used tmux for automated testing of full-screen interactive command-line apps. It comes out like PhantomJS: send-keys + capture-pane is pretty awesome (once you overcome dumb timing stuff).

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:40AM (#26671315)

That's sick and good to know. I can use that on my current project.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by cryptonector on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:06PM (#26672671)

You might want to look into expect(1).

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