Returning the behavior of an old copy in tmux with the mouse

Question

This is what I did in tmux for copy-paste (using the mouse, the keyboard works differently and it doesn't interest me):

• Select text with the mouse by pressing the left button
• Insert text using middle button

I updated my OS and it has a new version of tmux. I have not changed the configuration file .tmux.conf .

This is what I should do with the current version of tmux , 1.6 (which comes pre-packaged in the latest Linux crunchbang file):

• Select text with mouse, left click and shift
• Insert text using middle button
• The terminal is blocked, the litte information area shows some numbers in the upper right corner of the current panel (ie [0/24] , maybe something has to do with how many characters were inserted), which means little to me, and to me no need / want (editing: it seems copy-mode is entered automatically here)
• I need to press q to get the functional terminal again.

This is too much trouble for what I do dozens of times a day. How to make the old mechanism work again?

Answer 1

To restore the default copy / paste configuration, you need to (at least temporarily) disable mouse support in tmux:

 prefix : set -g mouse off 

Where prefix is the tmux passkey ( Ctrl + B by default, unless you reprogram it). : starts command mode, and set -g sets the parameter globally.

When mouse mode is disabled, the standard copy / paste functions provided by your operating system work as expected.

Something else you might need is to "maximize" the current area so you can easily copy multiple lines.

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If you are working with the old (pre-2.1) version of tmux, you need to use the following:

 prefix : set -g mode-mouse off 

There is more detailed information and some convenient key bindings to automate all of this:

http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2012/07/16/tmux-and-mouse-mode/

The main point of the article related to the above is an excerpt from .tmux.conf:

 # disable mouse control by default - change 'off' to 'on' to enable by default. setw -g mode-mouse off set-option -g mouse-resize-pane off set-option -g mouse-select-pane off set-option -g mouse-select-window off # toggle mouse mode to allow mouse copy/paste # set mouse on with prefix m bind m \ set -g mode-mouse on \;\ set -g mouse-resize-pane on \;\ set -g mouse-select-pane on \;\ set -g mouse-select-window on \;\ display 'Mouse: ON' # set mouse off with prefix M bind M \ set -g mode-mouse off \;\ set -g mouse-resize-pane off \;\ set -g mouse-select-pane off \;\ set -g mouse-select-window off \;\ display 'Mouse: OFF' # zoom this pane to full screen bind + \ new-window -d -n tmux-zoom 'clear && echo TMUX ZOOM && read' \;\ swap-pane -s tmux-zoom.0 \;\ select-window -t tmux-zoom # restore this pane bind - \ last-window \;\ swap-pane -s tmux-zoom.0 \;\ kill-window -t tmux-zoom 

Answer 2

• Copy the text: select the text and press the left-button with the shift key.)
• Paste text with shift + middle-button

Answer 3

If "set -g mode-mouse on" you can do this trick:

On a Mac, press the "fn" button, then select the text and copy with the right mouse button or the cmd + c keyboard.

Answer 4

Use <prefix>+m to enable or disable mouse mode

 bind m run "if [[ `tmux show-option -w | grep mode-mouse.*on` ]]; then toggle=off; else toggle=on; fi; tmux display-message \"mouse tmux: \$toggle\"; tmux set-option -w mode-mouse \$toggle &> /dev/null; for cmd in mouse-select-pane mouse-resize-pane mouse-select-window; do tmux set-option -g \$cmd \$toggle &> /dev/null; done;" 

Answer 5

I had problems getting a Christian example for working in Tmux 2, I think some typos. I got below to work, and its a little easier to read and sets both global and windowed mode. someone. new user and tmux great!

 bind m run "\ tmux show-options -g | grep -q "mouse\\s*on"; \ if [ \$? = 0 ]; \ then \ toggle=off; \ else \ toggle=on; \ fi; \ tmux display-message \"mouse is now: \$toggle\"; \ tmux set-option -w mouse \$toggle; \ tmux set-option -g mouse \$toggle; \ " 

Answer 6

Changed from here - I use xclip instead of xsel in the original:

 bind -T root MouseDown2Pane run -b "xclip -o | tmux load-buffer - && tmux paste-buffer -s ' '" 

This fun works for me in tmux 2.5-rc2

Answer 7

For Mac + iTerm2 + tmux users (version> 2.1) :

Make sure the mouse mode is set in the tmux configuration (just add set -g mode-mouse on to ~ / .tmux.conf). Now, to copy the text inside the panel:

1. Press option + command and select the text you want to copy using the mouse cursor. It's like cropping a picture.
2. The selected text will be copied automatically (without the need for command + c ). Just insert it by conventional means.

Answer 8

This is a modified version of Kaixuan answer , which is compatible with Tmux 2.1.

 `bind m run "if [[ `tmux show-options -w | grep mouse.*on` ]]; then toggle=off; else toggle=on; fi; tmux display-message \"mouse tmux: \$toggle\"; tmux set-option -w mouse \$toggle &> /dev/null;`" 

All mode-mouse options were combined into one mouse option, and the show-option had to be replaced with show-options

Answer 9

in ~/.tmux.conf :

 set -g mouse off 

having bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf might be useful, so you can execute ctrl-d r to reload the configuration, for example.