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I started using tmux to have many panes open at once, but whenever I have a vertical split I find it hard to copy and select lines. How do I make my mouse selection follow line breaks like how my normal bash does?

Also, is there a way to select part of a line and continue selecting the rest of it after I take my finger off the Shift key?

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You can use the "zoom pane" feature by pressing prefix + z. The currently active pane will become full screen (press prefix + z to toggle) and now you can do mouse selection as if there are no splits.

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Wow! Lotta comments here.... Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot......For people that are new to TMux and not that experienced with the tmux configs.... this is BY FAR THE BEST ANSWER!!!
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It looks like an unresolved (yet closed) issue, see Don't yank newlines in line-wrapped commands #530.

To move this forward, I would suggest:

  • Opening a new issue on GitHub
  • Ask for the ungarbled patch proposed here
  • Report back to the maintainers if that solves the problem.
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there are configurations to enable mouse actions:

set -g mouse-select-pane on set -g mouse-resize-pane on #resize panel with mouse set -g mouse-select-window on #select window with mouse setw -g mode-mouse on #Make mouse useful in copy mode

try adding them in your tmux.conf

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I already have those in my tmux.conf, but they dont allow you to use the mouse to copy a line following a line break. Using the mouse will allow me to select a rectangular block, which don't encompass the text that's outside the rectangle, but part of the same line.

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