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

I saw the same upon upgrading to Sierra. In my case it stemmed from having the YankRing plugin installed.

Adding the following to my .vimrc fixed it for me:

"-------------------------------------------------------------
" Fix for YankRing bug
"-------------------------------------------------------------
let g:yankring_clipboard_monitor=0