Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard

Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by leejoramo on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:49PM (#26668869)

I first encountered the fuzzy search command bar shortly after I started using Mac OS X 20 years ago when I discovered LaunchBar. This revolutionized my computer usage. Basically bringing the power of CLI to GUI

It took quite a few years fir this to be picked up by SublimeText, but wow that was another huge boost. No longer needing to learn tons of keyboard commands to navigate an application.

I wish an OS would deeply bake this idea in. Apple has done good job with Spotlight for the system level (I still use LaunchBar on my own systems) , but I want this functionality to be shared between System and Apps

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by lanstin on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:20AM (#26669189)

The large numbers of keyboard shortcuts is a feature - like learning a piano piece or something, once you have muscle memory you can fly thru the commands. Having to look at anything other than the output of your command, like a suggested completion is slower.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by leejoramo on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:45AM (#26671816)

Lets just say I am very keyboard centric. I have used computers for nearly 40 years. I automate the my systems with extensive Keyboard Maestro and AHK scripts, use multiple layers on my programmable hardware keyboard, LaunchBar or Keypirinha. When editing text I seldom touch the mouse or use the menus. I have mostly made Windows 10 bend to my highly MacOS inspired keyboard focus

On Linux, I mostly restrict myself to the CLI. When I try Linux GUIs, I am frustrated with the lack of keyboard consistency in the GUI, but I have also never given it the months of time it would take to bend the Linux GUI to my way. (I do customize the heck out of the CLI)

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by CodeGlitch on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:39AM (#26669689)

This is what Ubuntu tried to achieve with Unity. Even as far as being able to search for GUI commands within individual applications. I thought it worked pretty well and was gutted when they scraped it.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by leejoramo on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:48AM (#26671847)

I only grokked what Unity was about after it was cancelled when I was searching for ways to make the Linux GUI more keyboard centric.

I never tried it, seems like such a wasted opportunity.

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by pacifika on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:19AM (#26670082)

Apple has that its command /

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by leejoramo on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:52AM (#26671897)

Yes thanks for mentioning that Apple’s cmd-/ I fell it gets us about a third of the way to a command bar. I prefer this to Windows alt key navigation of menus.

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