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Reputation: 7255

Can I use double click to select and copy in tmux?

I am learning to use tmux, I found when I in a tmux window, double-click to select and copy function did not work any more.

Can I use double-click to select and copy just as in iterm2?

I have googled for some time, but did not find an short and clear answer to this. I have added setw -g mode-mouse on in the tmux configure file already.

Upvotes: 40

Views: 17195

Answers (8)

ideasman42
ideasman42

Reputation: 47968

Don't know about iterm2, but this can be made to work in tmux 3.0 or newer
(tested on Linux w/ tmux 3.0, last command uses wl-copy on Wayland, otherwise X11 xclip).

Added triple click to select and copy a line too.

%if "#{==:#{XDG_SESSION_TYPE},wayland}"

# Double LMB Select & Copy (Word)
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "wl-copy"
bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "wl-copy"

# Triple LMB: Select & Copy (Line)
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi TripleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    send-keys -X select-line \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "wl-copy"
bind-key -n TripleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-line \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "wl-copy"

%else

# Assume X11.

# Double LMB Select & Copy (Word)
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "xclip -in -sel primary"
bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "xclip -in -sel primary"

# Triple LMB: Select & Copy (Line)
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi TripleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    send-keys -X select-line \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "xclip -in -sel primary"
bind-key -n TripleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-line \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "xclip -in -sel primary"

%endif

  • If you don't use copy-mode-vi, replace this with copy-mode.

  • If you don't want to copy the word without staying in copy mode you can add the following lines to the command.

    run "sleep 0.15" \; \
send-keys -X cancel

    So the full command reads:

    bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
     select-pane \; \
     copy-mode -M \; \
     send-keys -X select-word \; \
     send-keys -X copy-pipe-no-clear "wl-copy" \; \
     run "sleep 0.15" \; \
     send-keys -X cancel

    The sleep is only added so the selected word highlights for a short time, so you know what was copied.

For older tmux versions check the edit-history.

Upvotes: 46

Keisuke Kuzukawa
Keisuke Kuzukawa

Reputation: 21

This is using tmux 3.3 and pbcopy for macOS Ventula. this works for me.

# Double LMB Select & Copy (Word)
bind-key -T root DoubleClick1Pane select-pane \; copy-mode \; send-keys -MX select-word \; run-shel\
    l "sleep 0.1" \; send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy"                                         

# Triple LMB Select & Copy (Line)
bind-key -T root TripleClick1Pane select-pane \; copy-mode \; send-keys -MX select-line \; run-shel\
    l "sleep 0.1" \; send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy"

Upvotes: 2

LiaoL
LiaoL

Reputation: 117

Just uncheck the "Enable mouse reporting" option in iTerm2.

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But this has side effect: set -g mouse on in ~/.tmux.conf will not work.

Upvotes: -2

Rounak Datta
Rounak Datta

Reputation: 460

On Kitty/Alacritty, we double-click on the text-block while keeping Shift pressed. And copying works fine natively as well as within tmux.

Upvotes: 2

Filip Van Genck
Filip Van Genck

Reputation: 311

I have figured out a copy paste mechanism that is similar of what you will expect form a terminal

I used the following settings to be able to:

  1. select a word with a mouse double click action
  2. select a line with a mouse tripple click action
  3. select a partial line a mouse drag and drop action

This solution will keep the selection highlighted and copy the selection output to both clipboard buffers (primary and clipboard)

When you hit "Enter" you exit and go back to the shell

The advantage here is that you can use both middle mouse button as shift-insert combination outside of tmux to paste the content, while it is still selected.

Also when you exited back to the shell, you can use middle mouse button or hit shift-insert to paste the content

All what you would expect from a normal terminal environment

    # Enable mouse control
    setw -g mouse on

    unbind -T copy-mode-vi Enter
    bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter \
        send -X cancel

    # Drag and Drop Aelect & Copy (Selection)
    bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane \
        send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip -in -f | xclip -in -sel c" \; \
        send-keys -X no-clear

    # Double LMB Select & Copy (Word)
    bind-key -T copy-mode-vi DoubleClick1Pane \
        select-pane \; \
        send-keys -X select-word \; \
        send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip -in -f | xclip -in -sel c" \; \
        send-keys -X no-clear
    bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
        select-pane \; \
        copy-mode -M \; \
        send-keys -X select-word \; \
        send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip -in -f | xclip -in -sel c" \; \
        send-keys -X no-clear

    # Triple LMB Select & Copy (Line)
    bind-key -T copy-mode-vi TripleClick1Pane \
        select-pane \; \
        send-keys -X select-line \; \
        send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip -in -f | xclip -in -sel c" \; \
        send-keys -X no-clear
    bind-key -n TripleClick1Pane \
        select-pane \; \
        copy-mode -M \; \
        send-keys -X select-line \; \
        send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip -in -f | xclip -in -sel c" \; \
        send-keys -X no-clear

    # Middle click to paste from the primary buffer
    unbind-key MouseDown2Pane
    bind-key -n MouseDown2Pane run "tmux set-buffer \"$(xclip -o)\"; tmux paste-buffer"

    # Shift insert to paste from the clipboard
    unbind-key S-IC
    bind-key S-IC run "tmux set-buffer \"$(xclip -o -sel c)\"; tmux paste-buffer"
  • NOTE1 : in order for this to work across a ssh session : -X has to be provided as option to ssh
  • NOTE2: I'm using tmux version 2.8

Upvotes: 4

pete-may
pete-may

Reputation: 69

Building off of @ideasman42 's answer. This is using tmux 2.8 and pbcopy for macos mojave.

# Double LMB Select & Copy (Word)
bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    run-shell "sleep .5s" \; \
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy"
bind-key -n DoubleClick1Pane \
    select-pane \; \
    copy-mode -M \; \
    send-keys -X select-word \; \
    run-shell "sleep .5s" \;
    send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "pbcopy

My version selects the word, briefly highlights it, copies it to the system buffer and then cancels copy-mode.

Upvotes: 5

seeker_of_bacon
seeker_of_bacon

Reputation: 2429

In Alacrity holding Shift allows copying as if there's no tmux.

source

Upvotes: 15

WKPlus
WKPlus

Reputation: 7255

I found a way to achieve that: hold the option key when double clicking.

Upvotes: 71

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