Config right click to paste from system paste board in tmux on MacOS

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Pre

if you use powerline on Windows, then you may be familiar with the “right click to paste from system board” feature.

Issue

on Unix-like system, I’d rather tmux in my workflow in which I found right click doesn’t behave like what it does on Windows.

Slolution

Luckily, we could config it.

Steps

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# ~/.tmux.conf
# mouse binding
bind-key -T root MouseDown3Pane run-shell 'pbpaste | tmux load-buffer - \; paste-buffer -p'

-T indicates that we only change the keybinding under the root Key Table(you can check it by prefix+:customize mode)
no need to use the following repository, but found useful tmux config for pasting from system pasteboard here
ref: tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard