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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by nobleach on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:09PM (#26673413)
I think this may be an iTerm thing. By default, using the steps you've posted, the highlighted text will not go to a system clipboard.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by jcard on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:32PM (#26673666)
Ah! Thanks for pointing that out. That's the piece I forgot about here. iTerm is populating the system clipboard from tmux because of the tmux integration [1].

[1] https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

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