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by Winsaucerer 1533 days ago
It's really useful to be able to use visual mode on your terminal window, to copy things. That's something you don't get via ctrl-z or tmux.
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ksala_ 1533 days ago
Tmux has support visual mode (at least character and line), I use it all the times.

I don't remember if it's enabled by default, but I have this in my ~/.tmuxrc (where pbcopy is the excellent https://github.com/skaji/remote-pbcopy-iterm2/blob/master/pb...)

  # Enable vi mode
  setw -g mode-keys vi

  # Copy to host
  bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection
  bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe "pbcopy"
  unbind -T copy-mode-vi Enter
  bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe "pbcopy"
It mostly work as expected, ctrl+B ] enter copy mode, then you can use / and ? to search, v to enter character visual mode, V to enter line visual mode and y/enter to copy the selection.
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