Today I wrote a script to quickly search, delete and add new tmux session with the power of fzf. The script The --bind flag of fzf took me quite some time to debug because of many escape backslashes I needed to add. #!/bin/bash # ~/.local/bin/tmux-session-manager FIND_DEFAULT_COMMAND="tmux list-sessions | sed -E 's/:.*$//' | grep -v \"^$(tmux display-message -p '#S')\$\"" tmux list-sessions | sed -E 's/:.*$//' | grep -v "^$(tmux display-message -p '#S')$"\ | fzf --reverse --bind "ctrl-x:execute(tmux kill-session -t {})+reload(${FIND_DEFAULT_COMMAND})"\ --bind "ctrl-n:execute(bash -c 'read -p \"Name: \" name; tmux new -d -s \"\$name\"')+reload(${FIND_DEFAULT_COMMAND})" \ --bind "ctrl-r:reload(${FIND_DEFAULT_COMMAND})"\ --header 'Enter: switch session | Ctrl-X: kill session | Ctrl-N: new session | Ctrl-R: refresh list'\ | xargs tmux switch-client -t And I bind it into s key to overwrite the default tmux behavior.

I already posted this on c/commandline but I think it’s more suitable here.

  • @mrCunninghamEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    it would be nice to navigate the list with j/k but this is awesome, thanks

    • Howard DoOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah, I would’ve tried to implement that if I hadn’t custom mapped my keyboard Capslock+hjkl to arrows.

  • SuperFolaEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Thanks, this is really cool!

    If you don’t want the border because you applied a style to fzf, you can add -B to the display-popup tmux command.

    • Howard DoOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      cool, I’m still a noob in both tmux and fzf, so I wouldn’t know much else to add. The script is just a result of asking ChatGPT and debugging.

    • Howard DoOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I knew and currently use tmux sessionizer, but only to open git repos as sessions. But I don’t really like its session switcher, it doesn’t allow delete and adding so that’s why I created this.