Scrolling with Mousewheel AND copy-paste text without any shortcut

[francwalter]

Hello

One thing I hate since the beginning in tmux is that I have to switch the mouse on/off if I either want to scroll up/down or if I either want to copy text with the mouse (by just selecting it) and paste it by mouse rightclick. So normally I have mouse off (set-option -g mouse off).

I just found this plugin and thought with this I could solve this issue but I don't get it.
Is this ever possible?

E.g.: In tmux I have a logfile opened with vim and want to scroll down the text with the mouse (mouse on). Now I want to copy some lines and want to paste them at another spot.
Not possible, need mouse off for that.

Better example: I have in a tmux window some folder with a lot of files. I do some ls -al to show them all. With mouse on I can scroll the list up, because the actual window only shows the last ones, but I cannot select and copy anything in the list. With mouse off I can select and copy only the visible part of the list, if I want to copy text from the not visible files I need to switch mouse on, scroll, switch mouse off, select-copy. Very unhandy.
If I scroll with mouse off I scroll in the terminal history but not in the ls- al list.
Here screenshot from what I mean:

After the command ls -al:

Scrolling up with mouse off doesnt scroll the file list:

Scrolling up with mouse on scrolls the file list but now I cannot select-copy:

Another example, which I have very often is some output or file I want to copy. I cannot copy and scroll together in tmux, only without tmux.

I dont understand why I cannot have both in tmux like in normal terminal.

Can I use this plugin to do that or is that just impossible?

Thanks.
frank

tmux 2.6 on Ubuntu 18.04