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Can anybody tell me how to scroll up in a tmux session? Whether I use mouse scroll wheel or keyboard, on scrolling up all I get is ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A

Can anybody tell me how to scroll up in a tmux session? Whether I use mouse scroll wheel or keyboard, on scrolling up all I get is ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A

rhinoceraptor 7y ago
set -g mouse on in your ~/.tmux.conf should do the trick.
- panpanna 7y ago
  I don't understand why this is not the default behavior.
  - 1996 7y ago
    Different mouse settings send different strings. You may not way to scroll by accident if your application can use scrolling for changing commands like psql You may want to do mouse scroll only if you initiated scrolling with say Shift+Page Up (for me, all the above)
  - johnr2 7y ago
    > I don't understand why this is not the default behavior I would guess it's because a lot of tmux users don't use a mouse on the text console.
- reggieband 7y ago
  FYI - after you do this on Mac OS you can't copy to the system clipboard from the buffer using mouse unless you push `fn` before you click on the pane. I think there are workarounds to get from the tmux copy buffer onto the system clipboard but I usually just `Ctrl-b z` to zoom the pane to full-screen, hold down `fn` button to select text, then `Ctrl-C` like normal.
  - mhink 7y ago
    IIRC, this was fixed in the last few releases- it had to do with OS X's weird user-session/permissions management. At the very least, I was able to comment out the following workaround: bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi C-j send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi A send-keys -X append-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy"
  - raphattack 7y ago
    I'm using iTerm2 + tmux: 1. If I click my mouse to drag and select what I want to copy, the selection is copied to the clipboard when I release. Selection is highlighted with a yellow background. 2. If I want to double-click to copy, I just hold down the `option` key, then double click and it is copied to the clipboard. Selection is highlighted with a white background. In both instances, I don't even need to use `ctrl+c`.
  - rhinoceraptor 7y ago
    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 https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
pmoriarty 7y ago
Using the keyboard, I just type my prefix key followed by PageUp. After that, I can use the PageUp, PageDown, arrow keys, and vi movement keys to move around. I hit the RETURN or ENTER key to exit.
ohazi 7y ago
See my comments here: https://github.com/ohazi/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L69-L100 https://github.com/ohazi/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L69-... This is what I mean when I say that tmux config is unintuitive. Ideally there should be one or two directives needed to make this work. It took me weeks to get as far as I did, and I'm still not completely happy with it.
tim58 7y ago
control-b + pageup control-b + pagedown

rhinoceraptor 7y ago

set -g mouse on in your ~/.tmux.conf should do the trick.

panpanna 7y ago
I don't understand why this is not the default behavior.
- 1996 7y ago
  Different mouse settings send different strings. You may not way to scroll by accident if your application can use scrolling for changing commands like psql You may want to do mouse scroll only if you initiated scrolling with say Shift+Page Up (for me, all the above)
- johnr2 7y ago
  > I don't understand why this is not the default behavior I would guess it's because a lot of tmux users don't use a mouse on the text console.
reggieband 7y ago
FYI - after you do this on Mac OS you can't copy to the system clipboard from the buffer using mouse unless you push `fn` before you click on the pane. I think there are workarounds to get from the tmux copy buffer onto the system clipboard but I usually just `Ctrl-b z` to zoom the pane to full-screen, hold down `fn` button to select text, then `Ctrl-C` like normal.
- mhink 7y ago
  IIRC, this was fixed in the last few releases- it had to do with OS X's weird user-session/permissions management. At the very least, I was able to comment out the following workaround: bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi C-j send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi A send-keys -X append-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy"
- raphattack 7y ago
  I'm using iTerm2 + tmux: 1. If I click my mouse to drag and select what I want to copy, the selection is copied to the clipboard when I release. Selection is highlighted with a yellow background. 2. If I want to double-click to copy, I just hold down the `option` key, then double click and it is copied to the clipboard. Selection is highlighted with a white background. In both instances, I don't even need to use `ctrl+c`.
- rhinoceraptor 7y ago
  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 https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

pmoriarty 7y ago

Using the keyboard, I just type my prefix key followed by PageUp. After that, I can use the PageUp, PageDown, arrow keys, and vi movement keys to move around. I hit the RETURN or ENTER key to exit.

ohazi 7y ago

See my comments here: https://github.com/ohazi/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L69-L100 https://github.com/ohazi/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf#L69-... This is what I mean when I say that tmux config is unintuitive. Ideally there should be one or two directives needed to make this work. It took me weeks to get as far as I did, and I'm still not completely happy with it.

tim58 7y ago

control-b + pageup control-b + pagedown