Leaving tmux scrollback in terminal (iTerm2)

ssh tmux gnu-screen tty iterm
chbrown picture chbrown · Oct 12, 2012 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

Usually tmux will only show as much output as however many rows my terminal currently displays. And then when I detach it, it clears all of its content. I know how to look at scrollback (ctrl+A, [, k, ...), but how can I configure tmux to just print all its output to terminal, as if I wasn't using it at all?

I like tmux because I'm awful at remembering to nohup certain tasks, and because it makes viewing the output of long-running jobs easier. But I would like to be able to view its scrollback more naturally, by simply scrolling back in iTerm2.

Alternatively, if there's a way to do this in screen, I can use that too.

Answer

RobM picture RobM · Mar 10, 2013

iTerm2 build 1.0.0.20130302 has an preference which enables it to capture scrollback even when a so-called hard status line is present:

iTerm2 preferences pane

Works for me, tested with tmux v1.8.

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