Bug#679092: tmux: Flaky mouse text selections when multiple panes tiled vertically

2012-06-26 Thread Patrice Pillot
Package: tmux
Version: 1.6-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

When tmux is running in some terminal emulator (hence under X), and
there are panes arranged vertically (i.e. side by side), one cannot
select multiple lines of text in only one pane: the selection spans
across every pane.

Steps to reproduce :
1. start a tmux session
2. split window vertically (C-b %)
3. display some text in both panes
4. try to select multiple lines of text in some pane

Observed behaviour:

While the mouse pointer is dragged down, the selection spans accross
every pane

Expected behaviour:

Selection is restricted in the pane where it started from.

Most probably an upstream bug.

HTH,

phep


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to fr_FR.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tmux depends on:
ii  dpkg1.16.3
ii  libc6   2.13-33
ii  libevent-2.0-5  2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libtinfo5   5.9-9

tmux recommends no packages.

tmux suggests no packages.

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Bug#679092: tmux: Flaky mouse text selections when multiple panes tiled vertically

2012-06-26 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi,

Patrice Pillot patrice.pil...@teletopie.net writes:

 When tmux is running in some terminal emulator (hence under X), and
 there are panes arranged vertically (i.e. side by side), one cannot
 select multiple lines of text in only one pane: the selection spans
 across every pane.

It depends on your terminal emulator. Some (like PuTTY) support rectangle
selection and some don't. There's probably no portable way to make tmux
restrict what the terminal emulator does with the selection.

What you can do though, is use tmux's built-in copy mode and bridge the
buffer to your X selection using xclip. A simple Google search will find
lots of different ways to do this.

Cheers,
-- 
Romain Francoise rfranco...@debian.org
http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/



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