#Tmux iterm update
#Tmux iterm windows

No worry, iTerm2 can capture ANYTHING, and rebind it as needed.

I mean, sure I can :w or bind it to another key, but there are a couple shared OS-level shortcuts like this I just like to retain. I was one of those vim users that was stuck on MacVim for years because my brain was too wired to hitting 'cmd-s' for save and other dedicated app niceties. (What does Terminal.app give you over iTerm2?) Check out some of the things I mentioned. With respect, I believe you're making a mistake. color themes and convenient color switching configurable click behavior ('smart selection'). 'dynamic profiles' You can version control your config as JSON And all that sort of configuration can be version controlled in JSON (you certainly wouldn't want to get something like that working and then commit it to an app config dialog for safe keeping) I use the 'send raw bytes' feature so that I can switch panes in tmux with a single keypress, without needing to explicitly send the tmux prefix key. Powerful keybinding support for simple and sophisticated cases.

genuine fullscreen mode, not the crazy Apple thing where you try to fullscreen an app and it creates another 'workspace' or 'desktop' or something and you can no longer switch efficiently between fullscreened and non-fullscreened apps without seeing some sliding animation. visor mode: I always have a fullscreen terminal one keypress away It's really a killer feature, and it made iTerm2 worth a donation for me. ITerm2's tmux integration makes SSH access to remote machines feel almost as native as using your machine locally. 'sh -l -c 'exec tmux -CC -u new-session -AD -s remote'' I use this one-liner to SSH into a server and reconnect (or start) a tmux session:

#Tmux iterm windows

It'll pop up a new window that looks and feels just like it's running natively (complete with tab support), except it's all tunneled over SSH.Īnd if you disconnect, you can just reconnect later and your windows will all come back in the same state as when you left them. If you're SSHed into a server that has tmux installed, try running `tmux -CC` on the server. You don't need to know anything at all about tmux to use iTerm's tmux integration. Tmux can be a pretty complex piece of software, but iTerm can basically wrap it all up into a nice package.

iTerm2 has _fantastic_ integration with tmux (software used for persisting a terminal session across multiple logins).

#Tmux iterm update

This means that it's necessary to update to at least tmux 2.2 to obtain the drag-and-copy behavior for terminals that don't support set-clipboard, such as GNOME Terminal.Not sure whether or not this is a little-known feature.

Thus, before 2.2 I believe the only method of setting the system clipboard on mouse drag was through the built-in use of xterm escape sequences (the set-clipboard option). Tmux 2.1 changed the mouse support to the familiar mouse key bindings, but did not have DragEnd bindings, which were introduced in 2.2. Tmux 2.2 to 2.4: # For vi copy mode bindingsīind-key -t vi-copy MouseDragEnd1Pane copy-pipe 'xclip -selection clipboard -i'īind-key -t emacs-copy MouseDragEnd1Pane copy-pipe 'xclip -selection clipboard -i'Ĭopy after mouse drag support was originally added in Tmux 1.3 through setting the new mode-mouse option to on. Some equivalent replacements for 'xclip -selection clipboard -i' below on non-X platforms are 'wl-copy' (Wayland), 'pbcopy' (macOS), 'clip.exe' (Windows, WSL), and 'cat /dev/clipboard' (Cygwin, MinGW).īind-key -T copy-mode MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -selection clipboard -i' As for the shell command, we simply need something which will set the contents of the system clipboard to whatever is piped to it xclip is used to do this in the following commands. This tmux command was copy-pipe before tmux 2.4, and has since changed to send-keys -X copy-pipe. We can then bind the copy mode MouseDragEnd1Pane 'key', i.e., when the first mouse button is released after clicking and dragging in a pane, to a tmux command which takes the current copy mode selection (made by the default binding for MouseDrag1Pane) and pipes it to a shell command. This option might be supported and enabled by default on iTerm2 (see set-clipboard in the tmux manual), which would explain the behavior on there. Gnome-terminal doesn't support setting the clipboard using xterm escape sequences so we should ensure the set-clipboard option is off: set-option -s set-clipboard off Tmux 2.4+ with vi copy mode bindings and xclip: set-option -g mouse onīind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -selection clipboard -i'įor older tmux versions, emacs copy mode bindings (the default), or non-X platforms (i.e., no xclip), see the explanation below.Įxplanation: First we need to enable the mouse option so tmux will capture the mouse and let us bind mouse events: set-option -g mouse on