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tmux and text selection with mouse through putty
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I'm running tmux in a putty session. Normally(running just a plain shell or GNU Screen) to select text I'd just left click and drag the mouse across some text. With tmux, I have to hold shift while selecting text with a mouse. How can I get the "normal" behavior back Edit, this seems to be caused b…
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No. In order to implement mouse-select-pane, tmux must capture the mouse from the terminal (like any other terminal application which supports the mouse). In most terminals, including putty, this means you need to use shift for standard copy and pas…
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