yank-buffer command for OSC 52

[Suraj N. Kurapati]

Hello,

I think a yank-buffer command would be useful for taking an existing
tmux buffer and writing its contents out to the clipboard via OSC 52.

For instance, I sometimes need to copy the contents of an older buffer
to my system clipboard, so I run choose-buffer to interactively select
the older buffer I want to copy and then copy its contents via OSC 52:

# using https://github.com/sunaku/home/blob/master/bin/yank script
bind-key -n M-Y choose-buffer \
'run-shell "tmux save-buffer -b \"%%\" - | yank > #{pane_tty}"'

With a yank-buffer command, I could forgo the external OSC 52 logic and
simply rely on tmux's existing OSC 52 capabilities to perform the copy:

bind-key -n M-Y choose-buffer 'yank-buffer -b "%%"'

What do you think? If this seems reasonable, I can attempt a patch.

Thanks for your consideration.

[Nicholas Marriott]

It would be better as a flag to paste-buffer or save-buffer to write it
using OSC 52.

save-buffer is probably easier since it doesn't have a -t flag already
so you could add "-t client" to tell it which client to write to.

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