itermterminal
In Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal, my iTerm2 (3.2.7beta4) has the following options:
I would like iTerm2 to send mouse wheel events to the application (so that I can e.g. scroll in tmux), but not other mouse events. When I use mouse to select text (without any modifier keys), I want iTerm2 to handle that, not tmux. It looks like I can't do that with the above options. Is there any other way to do that?
You can setup key shortcuts for this functionality in iTerm2.
In Prefs > Profiles > Keys you can assign keys to move the beginning or end of the selection by a single character, word, or line. No such keys are bound by default.
To make a shortcut for the precise text selection you are referring to you would assign the shortcuts to the following actions,
⇧ ⌥ → = Move end of selection forward, Move by word
⇧ ⌘ → = Move end of selection forward, Move by line
Tmux uses ^? for delete. stty was not sending ^?.
I changed that using stty erase '^?' and then changed my preferences in iTerm2 for delete to send ^?
Best Answer
There is no way to do it right know, but this pull request, if it gets accepted, will enable iTerm2 to report mouse wheel events without reporting clicks.