Can I use double click to select and copy in tmux?

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WKPlus picture WKPlus · Jul 14, 2015 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I am learning to use tmux, I found when I in a tmux window, double-click to select and copy function did not work any more.

Can I use double-click to select and copy just as in iterm2?

I have googled for some time, but did not find an short and clear answer to this. I have added setw -g mode-mouse on in the tmux configure file already.

Answer

WKPlus picture WKPlus · Jul 14, 2015

I found a way to achieve that: hold the option key when double clicking.

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