tmux: Scrollback timestamp

When in copy mode the scrollback timestamp is displayed in addition to the scrollback line number in a format like: {timestamp} [{lines_from_end}/{history_total}]

The timestamp format depends on when the last line of history displayed was captured:

For example, if the pane has 1042 lines of history captured and you scrollback 10 lines to display a line that was captured on Wed 23 13:14:16 then tmux will display something like:

The feature arrived in v3.4. Unfortunately the code for this feature (window_copy_write_line) doesn't offer any opportunity to configure that at the moment.

Published on: 19 Apr 2024