Getting back old copy paste behaviour in tmux, with mouse

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blueFast picture blueFast · Jul 3, 2013 · Viewed 96.2k times · Source

This is what I used to do in tmux to copy-paste (using the mouse, the keyboard works differently and it is not what I am interested about):

  1. Select text with mouse, left-button pressed
  2. Paste text with middle-button

I have upgraded my OS, and this has gotten a new tmux version. I have not changed my .tmux.conf config file.

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

  1. Select text with mouse, left-button pressed and shift key
  2. Paste text with middle-button
  3. Terminal gets blocked, a litte information area shows some numbers on the top right of the current pane (i.e. [0/24], probably something related to how many characters have been pasted), which mean little to me and I do not need / want (edit: it seems copy-mode is entered automatically here)
  4. I have to press the q key to get a functional terminal again.

This is too much hassle for something I do dozens of times a day. How to get the old mechanism working again?

Answer

Yves Blusseau picture Yves Blusseau · May 28, 2014
  1. Copy the text: select the text and press mouse left-button with shift key press too.
  2. Paste the text with shift key + middle-button

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