I'm using tmux 2.1 and tried to on mouse mode with
set -g mouse on
And it works fine, I can switch across tmux window splits by clicking the appropriate window. But the downside of this is that I cannot select text with mouse. Here is how it looks like:
As you can see, the selection just become red when I keep pressing the mouse button and disappear when I release the button. Without mouse mode enabled the "selection with mouse" works completely fine.
Is there some workaround to turn mouse mode on and have the ability to select text?
Best Answer
If you press Shift while doing things with the mouse, that overrides the mouse protocol and lets you select/paste. It's documented in the xterm manual for instance, and most terminal emulators copy that behavior.
Notes for OS X: In iTerm, use Option instead of Shift. In Terminal.app, use Fn.