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I love Tmux, I just can't seem to wrap my head on how to COPY and PASTE something lol. Anyone have any step, by step tutorial for how to copy and paste like VIM? I would like to be able to see what is being copied just like in VIM's visual mode. Like If I can copy some code in VIM and then go to paste in another REPL pane in TMUX then that would be my ideal goal!

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By default it's:

    C-b [   Start copy mode

C stands for CTRL, by the way.

This allows you to scroll up in the window and place the cursor where you want to start copying, then:

    C-SPACE Set mark

This sets the mark for copying, then you can move around and what will be copied will be hilighted with a background color.

    M-w     Copy selection

This copies the selection. Incidentally, M stands for "meta" and is nearly always usable with ESC, but often ALT will work in many terminals (some need a setting to enable it).

To paste, go to the buffer you want to paste into and then:

    C-b ]    Paste!

Copy mode is your friend and article does have a section o that so i think you should be using those settings.

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