[mitchty]

If you use a mouse yeah, but as noted by others, with tmux 1.8+ just prefix-z and you can temporarily zoom that one pane. So there really isn't much reason to complain about this particularly.

[zhengyi13]

Not necessarily. At least in Gnome-terminal, Ctrl-Alt-(mouse drag) is a block select that works just fine for copy-paste out of a vertical split.

Or do the rotation thing. Or do the copy-mode thing. More than one way to skin this cat; just depends on which workflow you wish to adopt.

[pekk]

This is much more awkward than just selecting it with the mouse. That's a reason to complain.

[stormbrew]

Well, this is not really the dilemma though. If you don't have vertical splits you don't have this problem, but you also don't have vertical splits. If you have vertical splits you'll solve this problem somehow.

[madeofpalk]

idk what everyone else here is talking about, but I can copy with vertical panes with my mouse just fine http://i.imgur.com/lWxygYn.png

[thristian]

They're talking about using the host terminal's text-selection mode and the system clipboard, rather than tmux's built-in text-selection mode, which does.

I too generally use tmux's built-in text-selection and clipboard when I'm copying from pane to pane, because it's more convenient.

[mitchty]

The thing is you can synchronize tmux selection with your clipboard, there isn't really a need for tmux to "support" your terminal's view of tmux running within.