saving and loading tmux copy-paste buffers

[Greg Mattson]

all,

I was hoping that there was a way to save all the buffers that I've attained through copy and paste. It really sucks to have a tmux die, only to have hundreds of buffers that I've accumulated die with it.

Is there a way to save these buffers to a file and then reload them when I start a new tmux?

thanks much..

[Nicholas Marriott]

There is no builtin way to do this but it seems like it would be trivial to write a script to save all the buffers every few minutes and reload them when you start the server, something like (to save):

mkdir -p ~/.tmux.d/buffers ~/.tmux.d/buffers.old

rm -f ~/.tmux.d/buffers.old/*

mv ~/.tmux.d/buffers/* ~/.tmux.d/buffers.old

tmux lsb -F '#{buffer_name}'|while read n; do

    tmux saveb -b $n ~/.tmux.d/buffers/$n

done

And to reload:

for n in ~/.tmux.d/buffers/*; do

     case $n in

           buffer*)

                tmux loadb $n

                ;;

           *)

                tmux loadb -b $(basename $n) $n

                ;;

       esac

done

This may need some tweaks to load automatic buffers in the right order (maybe put #{buffer_created} in the name and sort by that?).

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