Many concurrent sessions with many panes each make it hard to track what is
running where, and moving a pane between windows means join-pane with a
hand-typed target, so it rarely gets done.
tmux-fzf gives a fuzzy-searchable list of every session, window and pane with
a live preview of each, and implements break/join/swap as pane actions --
which is the pane-movement gap. fzf is already in apt.global, arch.global and
brew.global, so no new packages are needed.
Checked out as a submodule rather than left for TPM to clone on first
prefix+I: ~/.tmux symlinks to config/tmux, so a TPM-installed plugin lands
inside this repo as untracked files. The submodule pins a version and
installs via the existing "git submodule update --init". TPM still sources it
from the @plugin line and can still update it.
prefix+F is the plugin's own top-level menu. prefix+P/W/S skip straight to
the pane, window and session panels. TMUX_FZF_CLIENT pins each action to the
client that opened it, as the plugin's own binding does -- run-shell has no
client context, so tmux otherwise targets the most recently active client,
which is wrong when a second client is attached to the same session.
No env-var configuration was needed: preview is already on by default, and
the TMUX_FZF_* variables are read from the environment only, so the README's
suggestion to set them in .tmux.conf is not valid tmux syntax.
Tested against tmux 3.5a and fzf 0.38.0: config parses with no errors, all
three bindings register, existing bindings are unaffected, TPM sources the
plugin and binds prefix+F, the three scripts pass bash -n, and the plugin's
fzf-version detection resolves to fzf-tmux with preview enabled. The
interactive picker itself needs a real terminal and is left to manual check.
branderson
Bradley Anderson