Comment 1 for bug 888248

Two more things worth documenting:

  1. <ENTER> exits scrollback mode (copy-mode as tmux manpage calls it)
  2. when hitting <ENTER>, the higlighted text is copied to paste buffer. That gets a bit misleading if you are expecting to delineate both start and finish of copy text with 'space' then exit with <ENTER>.

Probably a simple example (in man-page?) using the f12 escape key would server everyone best. Something like:

  1. Enter copy-mode by hitting F12 then [.
  2. Move up/down using arrow keys and page-up/down or using vi bindings (hjkl, ctrl-b/ctrl-f)
  3. Start selecting text by hitting space
  4. Move to end of text to be selected (same as in step 2)
  5. Mark end of text to be selected using <ENTER>, which will also exit copy-mode.
  6. to insert the selected text, use F12 followed by ].