Clipboard failure in tmux + vim after upgrading to MacOS Sierra

Question

Yesterday, I upgraded to MacOS Sierra and it broke my clipboard functionality in my tmux + neovim setup.

Here is the behavior:

• I can use the standard ctrl+

Answer 1

Upgrading brew + vim + tmux fixed this for me:

brew update
brew upgrade vim
brew upgrade tmux

Notes:

• I am not using Neovim but hopefully this will help anyway
• This may take a while depending on how slow your machine is
• When I did this brew upgraded ruby for me and it complained that it wouldn't overwrite the existing symlinks so I had to manually run: brew link --overwrite ruby
• Tmux complained about the following setting after the upgrade. I just commented it out: # set-option -g status-utf8 on
• I had a warning about needing the new xcode tools so I ran the following and accepted the GUI prompts: xcode-select --install (In hindsight this may mess up my react-native install :/. Buyer beware)
• When first running brew update brew complained it didn't have write access to /usr/local so I made myself the owner of /usr/local NON-RECURSIVE. After the update brew told me I could change the owner back to root:wheel.