Text Select Question (not a tmux bug)

[Jon Forrest]

I log into a Windows 10 machine, and from there ssh to a Fedora 33 box
that's running tmux 3.1c. I create a new pane with tmux so I see
two tmux panes side to side in one window.

I want to select some lines from one of the panes by using the
Windows text select method. The problem is that Windows selects
the text on the same line from *both* panes.

I was trying to use tmux to avoid having to use the mouse to switch
between ssh sessions. Using two Windows ssh logins would obviously solve
the copy problem, but wouldn't be as efficient as using tmux.

The only way I can see to solve this is to use the new Windows terminal
to create the panes. It's able to do text selections in one pane only.

This is clearly not a tmux bug but I wonder how people work around
this.

Cordially,
Jon Forrest

[Nicholas Marriott]

You have to use tmux's mouse support if you want it to be properly aware of panes. That means to get it back to the system clipboard you will need a terminal that supports OSC 52 and to configure tmux to use it.

Or some terminals do allow rectangular selections, if yours does then you could try that.

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