diff --git a/modules/home-manager/tmux.nix b/modules/home-manager/tmux.nix
index 00e1716..8e402c1 100644
--- a/modules/home-manager/tmux.nix
+++ b/modules/home-manager/tmux.nix
@@ -1,60 +1,129 @@
 { config, pkgs, inputs, ... }:
 
+let
+  # Powerline separators, U+E0B0..U+E0B3.
+  #
+  # Written as escapes rather than literal glyphs. These are Private Use Area
+  # codepoints: they render only with a patched font, they survive copy/paste
+  # badly, and when they get stripped the loss is invisible -- the config still
+  # parses, the status bar just quietly loses its separators. Nix has no \u
+  # escape of its own, but fromJSON does.
+  sep = builtins.fromJSON ''
+    {
+      "right":     "\ue0b0",
+      "rightThin": "\ue0b1",
+      "left":      "\ue0b2",
+      "leftThin":  "\ue0b3"
+    }
+  '';
+in
 {
   programs.tmux = {
     enable = true;
     prefix = "C-a";
     keyMode = "vi";
     mouse = true;
-    terminal = "screen-256color";
+
+    # tmux-256color gives truecolor, italics and undercurl in nvim.
+    # screen-256color has none of them. No terminfo gymnastics needed here --
+    # unlike macOS, NixOS ships a current ncurses that has the entry.
+    terminal = "tmux-256color";
+
+    # Default is 500ms. That is the lag you feel leaving insert mode in nvim,
+    # because tmux is waiting to see whether Esc starts an escape sequence.
+    escapeTime = 10;
+
+    # nvim autoread / :checktime react to focus. home-manager defaults to false.
+    focusEvents = true;
+
+    # Default is 2000.
+    historyLimit = 50000;
+
+    # Window numbers matching the number row. Behaviour change, so opt in.
+    # baseIndex = 1;
+
     extraConfig = ''
       # Status keys
       set -g status-keys vi
+
+      # Tell tmux the outer terminal can do 24-bit colour (tmux >= 3.2).
+      set -sa terminal-features ",*:RGB"
+
+      # --- Shift+Enter / extended keys -----------------------------------
+      # Still the open topic; uncommenting these makes tmux forward CSI-u
+      # sequences unconditionally. Needs tmux >= 3.5 for the format option,
+      # and a `tmux kill-server` afterwards -- a config reload is not enough.
+      #set -s extended-keys always
+      #set -s extended-keys-format csi-u
+      #set -as terminal-features '*:extkeys'
+
       # Status bar options
-      set -g status-interval 1
-      set -g status on
+      set -g status-interval 5   # was 1; the clock only has minute resolution
       set -g status-justify left
+
       # Clock mode
       setw -g clock-mode-colour cyan
+
       # Colors
       set -g status-bg black
       set -g status-fg white
+
       # Key bindings
-      # Reload configuration 
-      bind r source-file ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
-      # Panel split and selection
+      # Reload configuration. tmux.conf is a read-only symlink into the nix
+      # store, so this only picks up changes after `home-manager switch`.
+      bind r source-file ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf \; display-message "tmux.conf reloaded"
+
+      # Panel split and selection -- new panes/windows inherit the cwd
       unbind %
       unbind '"'
-      bind v split-window -v
-      bind c split-window -h
-      bind i new-window
-      bind b previous-window
-      bind n next-window
+      bind v split-window -v -c "#{pane_current_path}"
+      bind c split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"
+      bind i new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
+      bind -r b previous-window
+      bind -r n next-window
+
       # Move around panes with hjkl
       bind h select-pane -L
       bind j select-pane -D
       bind k select-pane -U
       bind l select-pane -R
-      # Resize panes
-      bind H resize-pane -L 5
-      bind J resize-pane -D 5
-      bind K resize-pane -U 5
-      bind L resize-pane -R 5
+
+      # Resize panes -- -r makes them repeatable, hold instead of re-prefixing
+      bind -r H resize-pane -L 5
+      bind -r J resize-pane -D 5
+      bind -r K resize-pane -U 5
+      bind -r L resize-pane -R 5
+
       # Wayland clipboard integration
       # Copy selection to both clipboard (Ctrl+V / Shift+Insert) and primary (middle-click)
+      # v/C-v added: you had no way to *start* a selection from the keyboard.
+      bind -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection
+      bind -T copy-mode-vi C-v send-keys -X rectangle-toggle
       bind -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "wl-copy && wl-copy --primary"
       bind -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "wl-copy && wl-copy --primary"
       bind -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "wl-copy && wl-copy --primary"
+      # Uncomment if you want yanks to also travel over SSH via OSC52.
+      # Locally redundant with wl-copy above.
+      #set -g set-clipboard on
+
       # Kill commands
-      bind q kill-window
-      bind Q kill-session
+      # Drop the `confirm-before -p "..."` part for the old single keystroke.
+      bind q confirm-before -p "kill window #W? (y/n)" kill-window
+      bind Q confirm-before -p "kill session #S? (y/n)" kill-session
+
       # Bars
+      # This is the nord-tmux status line. #{prefix_highlight} came from that
+      # theme's tmux-prefix-highlight integration -- a plugin you never loaded,
+      # so the token expanded to nothing. tmux can do it natively. Commas inside
+      # #{?...} are argument separators and have to be escaped as #, hence the
+      # look of the style spec.
       set -g status-left-length 24
-      set -g status-left "#[fg=black,bg=blue,bold] #{=20:session_name} #[fg=blue,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]"
-      set -g status-right "#{prefix_highlight}#[fg=brightblack,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]#[fg=white,bg=brightblack] %Y-%m-%d #[fg=white,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]#[fg=white,bg=brightblack] %H:%M #[fg=cyan,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]#[fg=black,bg=cyan,bold] #H "
+      set -g status-left "#[fg=black,bg=blue,bold] #{=20:session_name} #[fg=blue,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.right}"
+      set -g status-right "#{?client_prefix,#[fg=black#,bg=yellow#,bold] ^A ,}#[fg=brightblack,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.left}#[fg=white,bg=brightblack] %Y-%m-%d #[fg=white,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.leftThin}#[fg=white,bg=brightblack] %H:%M #[fg=cyan,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.left}#[fg=black,bg=cyan,bold] #H "
+
       # Windows
-      set -g window-status-format "#[fg=black,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore] #[fg=white,bg=brightblack]#I #[fg=white,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore] #[fg=white,bg=brightblack]#W #F #[fg=brightblack,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]"
-      set -g window-status-current-format "#[fg=black,bg=cyan,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore] #[fg=black,bg=cyan]#I #[fg=black,bg=cyan,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore] #[fg=black,bg=cyan]#W #F #[fg=cyan,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]"
+      set -g window-status-format "#[fg=black,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.right} #[fg=white,bg=brightblack]#I #[fg=white,bg=brightblack,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.rightThin} #[fg=white,bg=brightblack]#W #F #[fg=brightblack,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.right}"
+      set -g window-status-current-format "#[fg=black,bg=cyan,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.right} #[fg=black,bg=cyan]#I #[fg=black,bg=cyan,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.rightThin} #[fg=black,bg=cyan]#W #F #[fg=cyan,bg=black,nobold,noitalics,nounderscore]${sep.right}"
       set -g window-status-separator ""
     '';
   };