tmux-thumbs

A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers written in Rust for copy pasting with vimium/vimperator like hints.

Usage

Press ( prefix + Space ) to highlist in you current tmux visible pane all text that match specific pattern. Then press the highlighted letter hint to yank the text in your tmux buffer.

Matched patterns

• File paths
• File in diff
• Git SHAs
• Colors in hex
• Numbers ( 4+ digits )
• Hex numbers
• IP4 addresses
• kubernetes resources
• UUIDs

These are the list of mattched patterns that will be highlighted by default. If you want to highlight a pattern that is not in this list you can add one or more with --regexp parameter.

Demo

Tmux integration

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/fcsonline/tmux-thumbs ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-thumbs

Compile it with cargo:

cd ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-thumbs
cargo build --release

Source it in your .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-thumbs/tmux-thumbs.tmux

Reload TMUX conf by running:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Configuration

If you want to customize how is shown your tmux-thumbs hints you can run the command target/release/tmux-thumbs directly and play with all available parameters to set your perfect profile.

Once completed, write those parameters in ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-thumbs/tmux-thumbs.sh file. There is a COMMAND variable where you can set all those options.

Example:

./target/release/tmux-thumbs -a qwerty -r -u

You can review all available options executing:

> tmux-thumbs --help

tmux-thumbs 0.2.2
A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator

USAGE:
    tmux-thumbs [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -r, --reverse    Reverse the order for assigned hints
    -u, --unique     Don't show duplicated hints for the same match
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -a, --alphabet <alphabet>                          Sets the alphabet [default: qwerty]
        --bg-color <background_color>                  Sets the background color for matches [default: black]
        --command <command>                            Pick command [default: tmux set-buffer {}]
        --fg-color <foreground_color>                  Sets the foregroud color for matches [default: green]
        --hint-bg-color <hint_background_color>        Sets the background color for hints [default: black]
        --hint-fg-color <hint_foreground_color>        Sets the foregroud color for hints [default: yellow]
    -p, --position <position>                          Hint position [default: left]
    -x, --regexp <regexp>...                           Use this regexp as extra pattern to match
        --select-fg-color <select_foreground_color>    Sets the foregroud color for selection [default: blue]
        --upcase-command <upcase_command>              Upcase command [default: tmux paste-buffer]

Extra features

• Arrow navigation: You can use the arrows to move arround between all matched items.
• Auto paste: If your last typed hint character is uppercase, you are going to pick and paste the desired hint.

Arguments

• alphabet: Choose which set of characters is used to build hints. Default [qwerty]

• reverse: Choose in which direction you want to assign hints. Useful to get shorter hints closer.

• unique: Choose if you want to assign the same hint for the same matched strings.

• position: Choose where do you want to show the hint in the matched string. Options (left, right). Default [left]

• regexp: Add extra pattern to match. This paramenter can have multiple instances.

• command: Choose whish command execute when you press a hint

• upcase-command: Choose which command execute when you press a upcase hint

• bg-color: Sets the background color for matches [default: black]

• fg-color: Sets the foregroud color for matches [default: green]

• hint-bg-color: Sets the background color for hints [default: black]

• hint-fg-color: Sets the foregroud color for hints [default: yellow]

• select-fg-color: Sets the foregroud color for selection [default: blue]

Alphabets

This is the list of available alphabets:

• numeric: 1234567890
• abcd: abcd
• qwerty: asdfqwerzxcvjklmiuopghtybn
• qwerty-homerow: asdfjklgh
• qwerty-left-hand: asdfqwerzcxv
• qwerty-right-hand: jkluiopmyhn
• azerty: qsdfazerwxcvjklmuiopghtybn
• azerty-homerow: qsdfjkmgh
• azerty-left-hand: qsdfazerwxcv
• azerty-right-hand: jklmuiophyn
• qwertz: asdfqweryxcvjkluiopmghtzbn
• qwertz-homerow: asdfghjkl
• qwertz-left-hand: asdfqweryxcv
• qwertz-right-hand: jkluiopmhzn
• dvorak: aoeuqjkxpyhtnsgcrlmwvzfidb
• dvorak-homerow: aoeuhtnsid
• dvorak-left-hand: aoeupqjkyix
• dvorak-right-hand: htnsgcrlmwvz
• colemak: arstqwfpzxcvneioluymdhgjbk
• colemak-homerow: arstneiodh
• colemak-left-hand: arstqwfpzxcv
• colemak-right-hand: neioluymjhk

Colors

This is the list of available colors:

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white
• default

Background

As I said, this project is based in tmux-fingers. He did an extraordinary job, building all necessary pieces in Bash to achieve the text picker behaviour. He only deserves my gratitude for all the time I have been using tmux-fingers.

During a Fosdem conf, we had the idea to rewrite it to another language. He had these thoughts many times ago but it was hard to start from scratch. So, we decided to start playing with Node.js and react-blessed, but we detected some unacceptable latency when the program booted. We didn't investigate much about this latency.

During those days another alternative appeared, called tmux-picker, implemented in python and reusing many parts from tmux-fingers. It was nice, because it was fast and added original terminal color support.

I was curious to know if this was possible to be written in Rust, and soon I realized that was something doable. The ability to implement tests for all critic parts of the application give you a great confidence about it. On the other hand, Rust has an awesome community that lets you achieve this kind of project in a short period of time.

Contribute

This project started as a side project to learn Rust, so I'm sure that is full of mistakes and areas to be improve. If you think you can tweak the code to make it better, I'll really appreaciate a pull request. ;)

License

MIT