Hello! For the last time I'm trying to use only console applications on my Linux system (links as browser, mutt as e-mail client, barnowl as jabber client etc...). And tmux is excellent terminal multiplexer. Only one thing I dislike is that there is in more times faster use mouse to copy&paste.
And I have decided this problem for me. This patch will be public as part of my http://unde.su project, but it will excellent if tmux developers can take it into the main branch. So my patch adds 2 commands into copy mode: start-char-selection-with-keys & start-word-selection-with-keys. 2 options to `copy-mode` command: -c & -w which accordingly execute start-char-selection-with-keys & start-word-selection-with-keys after entering to copy-mode. and 2 default keys for vi-mode of copy mode (I didn't add ones for emacs-mode only because I'm user of Vim). z & x which accordingly execute start-char-selection-with-keys & start-word-selection-with-keys. What do my commands? After executing one of these it prints some blue characters by vertical from "`" till " " (48 keys on a keyboard). And you have to press 2 keys to select the start and the end line of the selection. After it it prints characters by horizontal to select the start and the end column of the selection. After that the selection flash and the command exits from the copy mode. The difference of 2 commands that the "char-selection" makes key accrodings for each column, and "word-selection" makes it only for each word, white space sequences, and for each delimiter. If there is more 48 lines/columns/words it adds also to the first 48 characters the same shifted characters (from "~" till "Z" (which means Alt+Shift+Z, it is so only because I didn't find how to difference "Space" and "Shift+Space")). If there is more 96 lines/columns/words it adds also the same characters which must be pressed with "Alt" (it inverts this characters on screen). So by 4 keys you can select any text on the screen by constant time. I'm using the next .tmux.conf: bind -n M-c copy-mode -c bind -n M-w copy-mode -w bind -n M-v paste-buffer And I can copy&paste any text for 4-8 seconds. So sometimes it is also fast as copy&paste with mouse (which takes 3 seconds for one-word text). But really I yet not get accustomed to my own patch :-) So it will yet faster in several days. Thank you. -- Nikolay Krivchenkov a.k.a. unDEFER
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