How to integrate window navigation with tmux
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You might want to use a consistent set of keys to move between panes of Vifm and tmux windows. Let's say you want to use C-hjkl
. This requires configuring both tmux and Vifm.
tmux part (Vim, fzf, Vifm)
The settings are from the README of the vim-tmux-navigator plugin that in turn is "a repackaging of Mislav Marohnić's tmux-navigator configuration described in this gist."
Keegan Lowenstein expanded these to account for fzf.
Here's a version that accounts for Vifm as well (put into ~/.tmux.conf
):
is_vim="ps -o state= -o comm= -t '#{pane_tty}' \
| grep -iqE '^[^TXZ ]+ +(\\S+\\/)?g?(view|n?vim?x?)(diff)?$'"
is_fzf="ps -o state= -o comm= -t '#{pane_tty}' \
| grep -iqE '^[^TXZ ]+ +(\\S+\\/)?fzf$'"
is_vifm="ps -o state= -o comm= -t '#{pane_tty}' \
| grep -iqE '^[^TXZ ]+ +(\\S+\\/)?vifm$'"
bind -n C-h run "($is_vim && tmux send-keys C-h) || \
($is_vifm && tmux send-keys C-h) || \
tmux select-pane -L"
bind -n C-j run "($is_vim && tmux send-keys C-j) || \
($is_vifm && tmux send-keys C-j) || \
($is_fzf && tmux send-keys C-j) || \
tmux select-pane -D"
bind -n C-k run "($is_vim && tmux send-keys C-k) || \
($is_vifm && tmux send-keys C-k) || \
($is_fzf && tmux send-keys C-k) || \
tmux select-pane -U"
bind -n C-l run "($is_vim && tmux send-keys C-l) || \
($is_vifm && tmux send-keys C-l) || \
tmux select-pane -R"
bind-key -n C-\if-shell "$is_vim" "send-keys C-\\" "select-pane -l"
Vifm part
These mappings will switch tmux window when appropriately (put into $MYVIFMRC
):
nnoremap <silent> <c-h> :if paneisat('left') | execute '!tmux select-pane -L %i' | else | execute 'wincmd h' | endif<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <c-j> :if paneisat('bottom') | execute '!tmux select-pane -D %i' | else | execute 'wincmd j' | endif<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <c-k> :if paneisat('top') | execute '!tmux select-pane -U %i' | else | execute 'wincmd k' | endif<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <c-l> :if paneisat('right') | execute '!tmux select-pane -R %i' | else | execute 'wincmd l' | endif<cr>
See also
- Issue #708 on GitHub for the source of the above.