tmux-fingers

One way to make tmux way more usable is to use tmux-fingers, which provides hint-based mouse-free copypaste capabilities https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers (disclaimer: I'm the developer of the plugin)

If you don't want to write a giant regex like this yourself, there are some ready-made tmux plugins that add things like this to copy-mode. https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-fpp https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-urlview Any configuration or plugin that leans on the built-ins is probably going to be faster, so consider that w/r/t tmux-copycat. I also really like tmux-resurrect, which saves and restores sessions for you; tmux-continuum, which runs those automatically; and the tmux-zen plugin for Oh-My-Fish: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum https://github.com/sagebind/tmux-zen/tree/master It's pretty easy to get a very nice tmux setup going!

Similarly, if you're using tmux there is the very handy tmux-fingers[1] plugin that kind of works like the vim-shortcut browser addons but inside tmux. You initialize the plugin and it shows you hints of what to copy, you press the wanted key and it copies the text next to the hint. Works with bunch of things (hashes, urls, numbers) and usually highlights what I want to copy, otherwise tmux with it's normal keyboard shortcuts work fine to manually select things. - [1] https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers

If you are using Tmux, you can use thmux-fingers[1] or tmux-thumbs[2], both create Vimium like shortchuts for urls and git hashes that once pressed copy the link to clipboard or the tmux buffer. Then you can just `git show` and `Ctrl-shift-V` or `Ctrl-b ]`. There's a lot of resources that can be yanked with tmux-fingers, kubernetes resources, ips and others [1] https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers [2] https://github.com/fcsonline/tmux-thumbs

If you want the fastest way in existence to copy/paste in terminal https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers

Nice article! I'm gonna introduce some of this in my configuration for sure! I have a function in my .vimrc ( https://github.com/Morantron/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L229 ) that allows me to send current vim selection to the adjacent tmux pane with vimux. This comes in very handy in REPLing sessions ( MySQL and the like ). For copy pasting stuff ( like ids, urls, SHAs, etc ) I use https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers which is awesome and you should totally try it! ( </shameless-plug> )

You are not using tmux properly if you don't have tmux-fingers ( https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers ) installed B) </shameless-plug>

Also, if you want a similar behavior for copy pasting in terminal, check this tmux plugin: https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers </shameless-plug>

I've been using tmux for a while. What I like most is the copy mode and its scriptability. Copy mode allows you to select and copy text using vi or emacs ( whatever you choose ) key bindings. This way, you can go completely mouse free in the terminal. This is also present in screen. Then scriptability: tmux exposes lots of commands so you can interact with it from a script. There are quite a few plugins out there. https://github.com/tmux-plugins/ My personal favourites: - https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers/ copy pasting using vimium-like hints, so you don't even have to enter copy mode ( this one I did it myself </shameless-plug> ) - https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator/ predefined user sessions. Solves repetitively opening the same services/commands every time you start a coding session.