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copy pasting in terminal with vimium/vimperator like hints.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-05-03 · latest 2026-04-13

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  1. …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)
    comment by Morantron · 2026-04-13 · in Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
  2. …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…
    comment by pxc · 2025-06-23 · in How I use my terminal
  3. …copy, otherwise tmux with it's normal keyboard shortcuts work fine to manually select things. - [1] https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
    comment by capableweb · 2021-03-28 · in Yank: Yank Terminal Output to Clipboard
  4. …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
    comment by augusto-moura · 2020-07-27 · in Highlights from Git 2.28
  5. If you want the fastest way in existence to copy/paste in terminal https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers
    comment by Morantron · 2017-06-13 · in Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
  6. …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> )
    comment by Morantron · 2017-04-20 · in Tmux and Vim – better together
  7. You are not using tmux properly if you don't have tmux-fingers ( https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers ) installed B) </shameless-plug>
    comment by Morantron · 2017-02-05 · in Using tmux properly
  8. Also, if you want a similar behavior for copy pasting in terminal, check this tmux plugin: https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers </shameless-plug>
    comment by Morantron · 2017-01-15 · in Vimperator: a Vim-like Firefox
  9. …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…
    comment by Morantron · 2016-07-03 · in Why You Should Try tmux Instead of screen