Comments on: Tools I use: tmux

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:38:10 +0000

Newer versions support mouse scroll wheel, which should help a bit. There are some minor copy mode fixes as well:
http://tmux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/tmux/CHANGES

By: Tim Brandes

Tim Brandes — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:06:17 +0000

Scrolling is a bit tricky in tmux and slows me down, too. I wish I had a regular scrolling mode to choose.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:16:57 +0000

Thanks for that tip!

By: thewtex

thewtex — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:43:26 +0000

Update to the latest tmux 1.3 and ‘setw -g mode-mouse on’ in ~/.tmux .conf

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:51:44 +0000

@A B: I didn’t know that! Thanks for the ‘Shift’ tip :)

By: A B

A B — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:32:47 +0000

Hmm, that’s weird. tmux only claims the mouse in copy mode if you have mouse-select-pane turned on.

If you do, in most terminals you can use Shift to override tmux taking over the mouse in order to make selections.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:01:35 +0000

While I prefer the vi keybindings, tmux offers emacs key bindings as well. The option:

set-window-option -g mode-keys emacs

in ~/.tmux.conf will set it for all windows.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:18:58 +0000

> Also, tmux cures screen’s most absurd problem: impossible to search google for it

Always google for “gnu screen”. That works fine.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:17:06 +0000

@A B: Actually I wasn’t complaining about the vi-like key bindings at all. I was complaining about the lack of mouse support. In screen, I can scroll back the buffer and select/copy text using my mouse (just like I can in most terminals). But with tmux, as soon as I enter copy-mode, the mouse basically doesn’t work at all for selections.

By: A B

A B — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:09 +0000

I’m not sure where you found the idea that you can’t scroll, copy or paste in tmux without using vi keys, tmux by default uses emacs key bindings, you have to explicitly configure it if you want vi keys (this is the opposite of screen which defaults to vi-like key bindings).