Awesome
Tmux open
Plugin for opening highlighted selection directly from Tmux copy mode.
Tested and working on Linux, OSX and Cygwin.
Key bindings
In tmux copy mode:
o
- "open" a highlighted selection with the system default program.open
for OS X orxdg-open
for Linux.Ctrl-o
- open a highlighted selection with the$EDITOR
Shift-s
- search the highlighted selection directly inside a search engine (defaults to google).
Examples
In copy mode:
- highlight
file.pdf
and presso
- file will open in the default PDF viewer. - highlight
file.doc
and presso
- file will open in system default.doc
file viewer. - highlight
http://example.com
and presso
- link will be opened in the default browser. - highlight
file.txt
and pressCtrl-o
- file will open in$EDITOR
. - highlight
TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function
and pressShift-s
- the text snipped will be searched directly inside google by default
Screencast
Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)
Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf
:
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-open'
Hit prefix + I
to fetch the plugin and source it. You should now be able to
use the plugin.
Manual Installation
Clone the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-open ~/clone/path
Add this line to the bottom of .tmux.conf
:
run-shell ~/clone/path/open.tmux
Reload TMUX environment:
# type this in terminal
$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
You should now be able to use the plugin.
Configuration
How can I change the default "o" key binding to something else? For example, key "x"?
Put set -g @open 'x'
in tmux.conf
.
How can I change the default "Ctrl-o" key binding to "Ctrl-x"?
Put set -g @open-editor 'C-x'
in tmux.conf
.
How can I change the default search engine to "duckduckgo" or any other one?
Put set -g @open-S 'https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q='
in tmux.conf
How can I use multiple search engines?
Put:
set -g @open-B 'https://www.bing.com/search?q='
set -g @open-S 'https://www.google.com/search?q='
in tmux.conf
Other goodies
tmux-open
works great with:
- tmux-copycat - a plugin for regex searches in tmux and fast match selection
- tmux-yank - enables copying highlighted text to system clipboard