3.7c questions and comments

This issue is for quick questions or comments about tmux 3.7. Please do not use this issue for bug reports, they will be ignored - for bug reports open a new issue with full information, see CONTRIBUTING.

Note that it is very important to restart tmux entirely after upgrading.

tmux 3.7 has many additions, improvements and bug fixes; most are listed in the 3.7c CHANGES file. Many thanks to everyone who contributed and apologies to anyone who has been missed.

A few of the more notable new features are:

• Initial support for floating panes. These are panes which sit above the layout, like popups except not modal. Open a floating pane with C-b * or new-pane. These were mostly written by Michael Grant. Note that floating panes work but have a number of missing features in this release (many of which are completed now in master).

• Support for line numbers in copy mode (from Leo Henon). Use the copy-mode-line-numbers option.

• "Control" ranges in styles and clickable controls in the default pane-border-status (from Dane Jensen).

• Additional sort orders and sorting for list-keys and other commands (from Dane Jensen).

• A focus-follows-mouse option (from Barry Wasdell).

• A get-clipboard to configure tmux to fetch the clipboard from the terminal when requested from a pane.

• Change message-style so that the message honours the fill attribute and can be set to take up only part of the line (the default message-style now includes fill=yellow).

• Add a short builtin help text for each mode accessible with C-h (from Patrick Motard).

• Some improvements to mode-keys vi so it works more like vi(1).

3.7a and 3.7b fix a couple of problems with the 3.7 release, most notably a crash with break-pane.

3.7c fixes another couple of small problems and also changes to require jemalloc on macOS in order to work around a bug in the macOS calloc function.

The issue for the previous 3.6b release is here.