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by moe 4840 days ago
Sadly this still leaves you with a rather crippled subset of the real thing. I.e. "copy mode" instead of proper scrolling, no native text selection, and very noticeable latency and glitches.

It's the price you pay for emulating a 35 years old piece of hardware[1] inside an emulator of the same...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

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I wouldn't call the copy-mode "crippled subset of the real thing".

With tmux's copy-mode, you can even select text without touching your mouse, using e.g. vim-like movements. Which is amazing feature.

The fact, that the copy-mode doesn't jump back down with every change on stdout is also very nice feature.

If you want to work with standard linux clipboard, you still can - just hold shift and select like in almost any linux TUI application.