Is it possible to :Tyank on a visual selection?

[axelson]

My use case is that I would like to yank a word or phrase that wraps around in a vim vertical split, so yanking directly with tmux will result in the other vertical buffer's text yanking as well. So on the surface :Tyank seems like it would solve the issue, but it seems to always yank a full line (or more if you give it a range).

Am I missing something? Or would that be an enhancement to vim-tbone?

[tpope]

Not possible with the current implementation. The appropriate interface for such an operation would be a map, and I'm not too enthused about opening that can of worms.

[axelson]

Okay, that is understandable. Thanks for the plugin (and especially for all of your other vim plugins).

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Tim Pope [email protected] wrote:

Not possible with the current implementation. The appropriate interface for such an operation would be a map, and I'm not too enthused about opening that can of worms.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/tpope/vim-tbone/issues/11#issuecomment-60317354.

[rainerborene]

function! s:tmux_load_buffer()
  let [lnum1, col1] = getpos("'<")[1:2]
  let [lnum2, col2] = getpos("'>")[1:2]
  let lines = getline(lnum1, lnum2)
  let lines[-1] = lines[-1][: col2 - (&selection == 'inclusive' ? 1 : 2)]
  let lines[0] = lines[0][col1 - 1:]
  let tempfile = tempname()
  call writefile(lines, tempfile, "a")
  call system('tmux load-buffer '.tempfile)
  call delete(tempfile)
endfunction
vnoremap <silent> <leader>y :call <sid>tmux_load_buffer()<cr>

This works well for me.

@tpope could you merge this piece of code on vim-tbone?

[ostrain]

Here's another way I came up with to do this, without writing a temp file:

vnoremap <leader>y "zy:tabnew<CR>"zP:w !xargs -0 tmux set-buffer<CR><CR>:bdelete!<CR>

Basically it yanks the selection to an arbitrary register (I'm using "z), opens a new (temp) buffer in a new tab, pastes in the contents of the register, uses xargs to pass the contents of the buffer to tmux set-buffer, then close the temp buffer/tab. It doesn't require vim-tbone to be installed.