Highlighting doesn't work about tmux-copycat HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Bruno

Thank you! The problem was caused by me unmapping Space from vi-copy and using v instead. I not sure why trying tmux with an empty config didn't work, but perhaps it didn't fully reload after all...

Sorry for the false bug report.

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Hi, thanks for taking the time to report the issue.
We've had similar bugs before, example in #40.

Unfortunately, this kind of an issue is very hard to troubleshoot. It required a pair programming session with the other person and access to his machine.
So I'm not sure if this will be fixed soon..

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Hi, thank you for the quick reply!

Ok, that is not great news. I you have any pointers I would try to troubleshoot it myself. Do you have any idea where the problem is created and can you tell me where the selection happens in the first place? I won't promise anything, but maybe I'll be able to submit a patch.

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Hi I recommend you to start investigating from this function.
That function - and the functions it calls do all the work related to cursor match positioning and match highlighting.

You said you have an issue where the match highlighting doesn't work. Match higlighting is done in this function.
I'm guessing you're using vi copy mode so you can focus just on these 4 lines:

# 'space' starts visual selection in copy mode. Can you verify this works for you when you do it manually? If not, this would explain why highlighting does not work for you.
tmux send-keys Space
tmux send-keys "$length" 
tmux send-keys l
tmux send-keys h   # selection correction for 1 char

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Awesome - I'm glad to hear it works for you now!

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