tmux copy-mode is a tmux mode that lets you scroll, search, copy, and jump your
way through a pane. There are a ton of keybindings for copy-mode, the main
ones you will need to know are / for searching down ? for searching up, n
for next item, space for starting a selection, and enter to copy the
selection. Arrow keys will be used for navigation unless you have specified vi mode, then it will be hjkl.
Default keybinding to get into copy mode is prefix+[.
bind-key [ copy-mode
If you are a vim user you will likely want to use vi style keys, add this to
your ~/.tmux.conf file to enable vi mode.
setw -g mode-keys vi
full list of copy-mode keybindings from the man page.
Command vi emacs
append-selection
append-selection-and-cancel A
back-to-indentation ^ M-m
begin-selection Space C-Space
bottom-line L
cancel q Escape
clear-selection Escape C-g
copy-end-of-line [<prefix>] D C-k
copy-line [<prefix>]
copy-pipe [<command>] [<prefix>]
copy-pipe-no-clear [<command>] [<prefix>]
copy-pipe-and-cancel [<command>] [<prefix>]
copy-selection [<prefix>]
copy-selection-no-clear [<prefix>]
copy-selection-and-cancel [<prefix>] Enter M-w
cursor-down j Down
cursor-down-and-cancel
cursor-left h Left
cursor-right l Right
cursor-up k Up
end-of-line $ C-e
goto-line <line> : g
halfpage-down C-d M-Down
halfpage-down-and-cancel
halfpage-up C-u M-Up
history-bottom G M->
history-top g M-<
jump-again ; ;
jump-backward <to> F F
jump-forward <to> f f
jump-reverse , ,
jump-to-backward <to> T
jump-to-forward <to> t
jump-to-mark M-x M-x
middle-line M M-r
next-matching-bracket % M-C-f
next-paragraph } M-}
next-space W
next-space-end E
next-word w
next-word-end e M-f
other-end o
page-down C-f PageDown
page-down-and-cancel
page-up C-b PageUp
pipe [<command>] [<prefix>]
pipe-no-clear [<command>] [<prefix>]
pipe-and-cancel [<command>] [<prefix>]
previous-matching-bracket M-C-b
previous-paragraph { M-{
previous-space B
previous-word b M-b
rectangle-on
rectangle-off
rectangle-toggle v R
refresh-from-pane r r
scroll-down C-e C-Down
scroll-down-and-cancel
scroll-up C-y C-Up
search-again n n
search-backward <for> ?
search-backward-incremental <for> C-r
search-backward-text <for>
search-forward <for> /
search-forward-incremental <for> C-s
search-forward-text <for>
search-reverse N N
select-line V
select-word
set-mark X X
start-of-line 0 C-a
stop-selection
top-line H M-R
for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post
Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.