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you can scroll just fine in tmux, in fact better because you can search in your scroll back. <c-b>[

as for selecting copying pasting. i use these options

    set -g mouse-resize-pane on
    set -g mouse-select-pane on

i can now select and resize panes with the mouse, and i can select while holding the option key on the keyboard.

also if you set

    setw -g mode-mouse on

you can scroll back with the mouse in the scroll back buffer without having to press c-b[ and it will still properly scroll everywhere else... vim/weechat/etc.

on a mac, iterm2 does this natively(in linux it works anyway). but if you want to use that in terminal or totalterminal(quake term) you'll need to install mouseterm. I recommend using mouseterm-plus as i recall mouse term is no longer maintained.

edit: looks like the link is dead you'll have to build it yourself https://github.com/saitoha/mouseterm-plus