Highlighting text with the mouse and letting go causes copy mode to exit and the buffer to scroll to the bottom.

[twof]

Other than this, everything seems to be working fine. Thanks for the plugin! I'm happy to provide any more info.

[NHDaly]

:) Thanks for filing the bug. This behavior bothers me as well...

I have filed a bug with tmux here: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/140, but apparently this is actually the intended behavior. It took me a while to understand, but what's happening is that it's actually copying the selection you highlighted. You can then hit ] to paste the line you highlighted. This is neat, but I most of the time find it bothersome.

I would like there to be an option to disable this behavior. Please file a bug with tmux or comment on my bug to let them know about your problem.

Or, if you can come up with a clever way of disabling it through the plugin, let me know! :)

[twof]

Thanks for getting back to me! You're right. That does seem like odd default behaviour. I'll go ahead and add a comment to your bug. An option to change that would be really nice.

I'll look into a workaround too when I get the chance.

[twof]

I'm not super familiar with scripting tmux, so maybe there's no way to do this, but maybe something like this?:

#Hold the number of lines has been scrolled up
export scrollNum=0
#increment scrollNum so that the number of lines that's been scrolled is kept track of
tmux bind-key -n WheelUpPane if-shell -F -t = "${export scrollNum=$(($scrollNum+"$scroll_speed_num_lines_per_scroll"))}" /*The rest of this line*/
#would have to reset scrollNum once we reach the bottom and make sure we don't keep deincrementing #if we scroll down at the bottom
tmux bind-key -n WheelDownPane if-shell -F -t = "${export scrollNum=$(($scrollNum-"$scroll_speed_num_lines_per_scroll"))} /*The rest of this line*/

#This puts us in copy-mode then sends scroll up commands until the buffer is in the same place it was #before the highlighting happened.
#You'd still lose the highlight though
#Really hacky I'm so sorry.
#Not sure how you'd do click and drag. 
#Maybe chain together some bind-key/unbind-key commands as part of the block that executes on click.
#Something like (bind-key MouseDrag1 (bind-key MouseUp1 doThing())
#As part of doThing, we'd need to unbind/rebind the keys to what they were previously so we don't 
#overwrite their original functionality
tmux bind-key -n <clickAndDrag> if-shell -F -t =  "if -Ft= '#{pane_in_mode}' \"$select_moused_over_pane_cmd $enter_copy_mode_cmd\" "$for i in `seq 1 "$scrollNum"` ;do send_keys_to_tmux_cmd=$send_keys_to_tmux_cmd"send-keys -M ; " done

This is a really crappy, probably syntactically wrong work around. I don't know. Maybe this helps.

[NHDaly]

Huh! That's an interesting idea. Thanks! I'm not sure if that would work either.

I had previously filed this bug when I tried to do something similar and it didn't seem promising: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/147

But maybe now that I know more about tmux scripting maybe we could figure something out. I dunno! I don't have time to try playing around with this now, but it's a cool idea. I'll let you know if I get the time to try it out.

[NHDaly]

Closing this for now as it's not a problem with this plugin.