There are also a handful of other useful things we can do when working with the paste buffer.

You can optionally set a limit for the number of items to store in this stack by setting the buffer-limit option to a number in your tmux configuration. This can be useful if you only want, say, the last five items you copied in a paste buffer for security reasons.

You can also list paste buffers non-interactively by pressing <Prefix>, : (list-buffers) and Enter, which will display all the buffers in a list that you can scroll through. Notice how each buffer has an index, which is a number, followed by the size of that buffer. Press q (Esc) to dismiss this list.

This buffer index can be used in a few different operations. It can be used to delete a buffer, to copy a buffer to another session, to load a buffer at a particular index, to set the contents in a particular buffer, to write a buffer to a file, and much more. It is a bit outside the scope of this book to...