[mitchty]

Huh copy/paste works fine with vertical splits. Just setup tmux to sync your tmux clipboard with your regular x (or osx if you're into that kind of thing) clipboard.

You mean selecting text with a mouse on a vertical split? If so get tmux upgraded to 1.8+ then prefix-z and you can temporarily zoom the window to full screen.

Your information on tmux is highly out of date.

Also prefix-alt-2 will move to horizontal layout of panes.

[AjithAntony]

Yes, the zoom feature (resize-pane -Z) is a game changer for tmux-to-system-clipboard workflows. Before that I would do the block select with my mouse and then weed out all the extra whitespace as needed later.

[gaving]

Woah. Just tried prefix-alt-[n], totally awesome.

Thanks!