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Attempt to emulate Emacs registers in Tmux
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# -*- conf -*- | |
# Initialize alphanumerical registers to avoid the problem with 'delete-buffer' | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b a \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b b \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b c \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b d \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b e \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b f \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b g \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b h \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b i \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b j \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b k \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b l \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b m \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b n \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b o \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b p \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b q \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b r \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b s \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b t \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b u \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b v \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b w \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b x \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b y \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
run "tmux set-buffer -b z \"$(echo ' ')\"" | |
# Copy to user-selected register | |
bind -T copy-mode r command-prompt -1 -p '(register)' 'delete-buffer -b %1 ; send -X copy-pipe "tmux set-buffer -n %1"' | |
# Paste from user-selected register | |
bind -T prefix C-] command-prompt -1 -p '(register)' 'paste-buffer -b %1' | |
# Split window inheriting $PWD from current pane | |
# Bind intuitive, yet unused keybindings | |
bind -T prefix | split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}" | |
bind -T prefix - split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}" |
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I've added bindings for variants of the split commands that inherit
$PWD
from the current pane. It can be useful e.g. when opening multiple logs stored in some non-trivial directory hierarchy - saves repeatedcd
-ing to those directories. I picked intuitive keybindings:|
makes a horizontal split and-
- vertical.