I use byobu in tmux mode. In screen I can do this:
Ctrl+a [, move to line, Y, Ctrl+a ] "Y" copys the whole line into the clipboard. I am looking to something similar in byobu in tmux mode. The only thing I found is:
Ctrl+a/b (depends on your setting) + [, move to line, 0, space, $, enter, Ctrl+a/b + ] But I feel like that is a lot of hard to reach keystrokes, Y is much easier.
A bit of an improvement: do space, V, enter instead of 0, space, $, enter. A single V is a lot easier to type than a 0 and a $. V is equivalent to vim's "do visual mode select of entire line" command.
I can't speak to byobu directly but since it's just fronting tmux, you could also bind a key to all this in native tmux. Something like this:
bind-key -r -T copy-mode-vi Y send-keys -X begin-selection \; send-keys -X select-line \; send-keys -X copy-selection Then you just enter copy mode, go to the line you want to copy, press Y then Enter. The line will now be in the paste buffer. (While that's a bit long and ugly it does work for me.)
Edit: Tested with tmux 2.4
I have in my ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf
bind-key -t vi-copy 'v' begin-selection bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-selection so normally I can enter in copy mode by:
Prefix + [
then I can use vi commands to navigate and enter vi select mode by 'v' yank the selection by 'y'
after that I can put/paste in the terminal by:
Prefix + ]
In order to copy a line:
Prefix + [ navigate to the line $ (jump to the end) Left Arrow v (begin-selection) 0 (jump to the start of the line) y (yank and exit copy mode) Prefix + ] (paste the line) I've found the answer for the original question.
You need the following line in the config:
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Y send-keys -X end-of-line \; send-keys -X cursor-left \; send-keys -X begin-selection \; send-keys -X start-of-line \; send-keys -X copy-selection-and-cancel Because of newer Tmux version I had to change my config:
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-selection \; send-keys -X cancel Thanks to 'rushiagr' (http://www.rushiagr.com/blog/2016/06/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tmux-copy-pasting-ubuntu)