MacVim + tmux or: The Copy Paste Riddle

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Published on 2010-12-27T22:34:22Z Indexed on 2010/12/27 22:56 UTC
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Now this is weird.

Copied a chunk of a text from somewhere into clipboard.
Ran mvim from a tmux buffer.
Opened a file in MacVim.
Pasted the text.
MacVim results with the error: E353: Nothing to register +
Nothing gets pasted.

The plot thickens: I try to copy this error -- paste fails.

I go over the same steps, this time running MacVim from a regular Terminal window (without tmux) -- Everything is in its right place.

Whaa?

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