tmux-yank

Maybe you could try this - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

Disclaimer: I generally prefer doing everything by keyboard and never touching a mouse When you enter tmux scroll back buffer with "Ctrl-b [" you can reverse search the entire output and navigate within the buffer with standard shortcuts (same as man pages). I also added this yank plugin to copy any highlighted output to my system clipboard. Makes searching and copying output super fast https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

Tmux allows reverse search of the text on the screen and add the tmux-yank plugin to directly copy highlighted text onto your system clipboard https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

Can't tmux's built-in mouse support¹ handle this? Just add set -g option mouse on to your `tmux.conf` and tmux will do mouse selections for you and won't cross pane boundaries. You can use something like tmux-yank² to get your tmux selections onto your OS/DE clipboard if you're not using a nice/modern terminal emulator with OSC 52 support and you don't want to manually plug in `xsel` or `pbcopy` or whatever. (See the tmux docs on clipboard integration³ if you're not sure whether/how your terminal supports the standard.) -- 1: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html#MOUSE_... 2: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank 3: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard

I can highly recommend these tmux plugins that enhance the selection experience: - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-open - https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat

Middle-click I don't know about, as I never use it. Usually I don't even have a mouse connected to my computer so I'm limited to a keyboard only. I use the provided `yank` (prefix+y by default) to copy and normal ctrl+shift+v to paste in terminal. Then in other applications I just use ctrl+v and ctrl+c normally. For the "select to copy", all the information you need is in the GitHub repository previously linked. Here it is again: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank The specific section you're looking for is here: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank#mouse-support It's simple for you to try it out as well, have a read about tmux plugins and you'll be up and running in a yiffy. Also take some time to read up on terminal emulators, shells and what tmux is, as you seem to hold slightly off assumptions around where the problems you'

This also bothers me. As a keyboard guy it mostly bothered me that I could not jump to the thing that I wanted to copy. I found https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump, which works really well with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

I had the very same problem. Especially, I could not jump to the string I wanted to copy. I wrote a tmux plugin for it https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump Maybe it helps you too. Works great with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

No, it's not the internal "copy mode" of tmux, it's integrated with xclip (or xsel) so works via the normal clipboard I'm using in other applications too, it's basically the entire point of the tmux-yank plugin and why I shared it. Tagline from GitHub: > Tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank I could understand if you don't like tmux for other reasons (being a heavy mouse-user for example), that makes perfect sense. It's not for everyone. But if you take some time to understand why some things don't work like you expect it to (like what's the difference between a terminal emulator and tmux, what they have access to and so on) and how you could solve them, you'd avoid the issues you're describing. But again, tmux is a tool aimed for keyboard users, not mouse. This tool doesn't fit everyone, an

Yep, although there are plugins to integrate the tmux clipboard with the system clipboard. I use tmux-yank: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

A quick and dirty way of doing it, assuming the currently active pane is the one you want to copy text from: 1. Enable pane zoom (<prefix> z) 2. Enter copy mode (<prefix> [) 3. Select and copy text You can also look into the tmux-yank [0] plugin, which copies to the native system clipboard. [0] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

I have a plugin I use for that [1]. I enter copy mode, either by scrolling with the mouse or hitting Prefix + esc. I have the copy mode key bindings set up in vi mode (as is my shell), so I navigate around, hit V to enter visual mode, select some text and hit y. Now that text is in the system clipboard. https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank