To enable this copy mode, in you tmux config file, add:Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode The correct way to copy a text from tmux is to first switch to copy mode, then copy it, then paste it. If you try to copy a text from a tmux window with your mouse, you may have seen a warning saying that you can't simply copy the text. To navigate your terminal history and to copy text, you need to switch to tmux copy mode (technically it is vi-copy-mode, but to keep it simple, let's call it copy mode). If you need to insert texts, you need to switch to vim insert mode. Vim's normal mode is designed for moving (and to a certain extent, modifying) within your file. In Vim, we have a normal mode where you can move around with your keyboard. What that means is that to accomplish a specific task, you need to switch to a mode that's optimized for that task. One of them is that they are modal programs. In this article, I will show you how to utilize tmux copy mode to easily copy text. Copying with tmux is more like copying in Vim, where it's best done with a keyboard rather than a mouse. Having used text editing softwares like Microsoft Word / Google Docs and to some extent, Atom / VSCode / IntelliJ, it may feel natural to grab your mouse, highlight the body of texts, and press Ctrl + C. That's because it's now how tmux is designed. Click 'Help' > 'Contents' > 'Shortcut keys' in Gedit to access it.If you've used tmux for a while, you will realize that highlighting a text with a mouse in tmux to copy them is a painful experience. The list of default keyboard shortcuts in Gedit is available in the manual. If you're unable to get it to work, you could use a different editor that lets you edit shortcuts, such as KDE's Kate. To install the plugin, see How do I install a plugin for gEdit v3?.įor gedit2, the plugin files go in ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins. ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css: unbind-ctrl-d Īccording to one commenter, Ctrl- Tab is hardcoded and cannot be rebound easily, but there is a plugin that purports to do this. (gtk_accel_path '/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindNext' 'F3') (gtk_accel_path '/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindPrevious' 'F3') (gtk_accel_path '/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsNextDocument' 'Page_Down') (gtk_accel_path '/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsPreviousDocument' 'Page_Up') ~/.config/gedit/accels: gedit GtkAccelMap rc-file -*- scheme -*. You don't really need a plugin to change keyboard shortcuts. According to a commenter on the (very outdated) Gedit shortcuts documentation page: It may still be possible to edit the keyboard shortcuts by editing configuration files. You could load a different desktop environment and make the change there (if it works). I tried it in the old gconf-editor, and setting the option /org/gnome/desktop/interface/can-change-accels using dconf-editor, but it doesn't seem to work in Gedit (v3.4 on Precise).Īccording to Where to configure shortcut keys of Nautilus?, it doesn't work with Unity's global menu.

Recent Ubuntu versions use GNOME 3 I'm not sure of whether that still works (since GNOME 3 has migrated to dconf). The GNOME team removed the GUI for this, but at least under GNOME 2 it was still available via gconf. There used to be an option to enable editable menu accelerators for GNOME apps.

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