- To initiate copying, use Ctrl + B as the starting command.
- Navigate to the content by pressing [ and utilize arrow keys for precise selection.
- Press SPACE to begin selecting the desired text.
- Upon completion, press ENTER to confirm the selection.
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Scroll through the content using the mouse.
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Select the text by holding down the mouse click.
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Release the mouse click to return to the original prompt with the text now copied.
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Pasting Content:
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For pasting, press Ctrl + B to activate the tmux command.
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Press ] to paste the previously copied text.
This is the tmux buffer which you are using, to copy this content to your system's clipboard, just enter following command while in tmux session:
tmux show-buffer | xclip -selection clipboard
This will copy to system's clipboard and you are ready to go :)
To paste teh system clipboard content, just hold shift, then do ctrl+v
Simple and easy to learn key bindings for tmux
Description | Command |
---|---|
Create new window | alt+f |
Go to previous window | alt+j |
Go to next window | alt+l |
Detach current session | alt+d |
Rename current window | alt+r |
Rename current session | alt+s |
Go to next session | alt+k |
Go to previous session | alt+i |
Create horizontal pane | alt+h |
Create vertical pane | alt+v |
Go to left pane | alt+, |
Go to right pane | alt+. |
Go to upper pane | alt+g |
Go to below pane | alt+n |
To use tmux in windows, first install any distro of your choice on WSL, once installed, install tmux according to the distribution's docs,
and after that, simply start it.
You may ask i want the tmux to be working in windows environment right?
Well it is pretty simple, simply run powershell.exe
in the terminal and woh!
Powershell with windows info just got up right,
now simply do cd C:
and yup, you got into windows file system!
Now you can use tmux in windows as if you are running it in windows itself.