Working with tmux and SSH

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Useful tips when SSH in remote device which uses tmux

How to automatically start tmux on SSH session? #

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/40192494/8810271

Just put it in server-side .bashrc

if [[ -n "$PS1" ]] && [[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && [[ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]]; then
  tmux attach-session -t ssh_$USER || tmux new-session -s ssh_$USER
fi

bash

Detach from tmux session and close SSH session with 1 command #

From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/546831

Just type

tmux detach -P

bash

Copy Content Inside tmux #

enter copy mode using c-b [
navigate to beginning of text, you want to select and hit C-Space
move around using arrow keys to select region
when you reach end of region simply hit M-w to copy the region
now c-b ] will paste the selection

Copy over SSH with MinTTY #

Options → Selection → Allow setting selection

And copy as usual in tmux.

If inside vim, enter copy mode first by hitting c-b [