# tmux-fingers mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für tmux-fingers in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:tmux-fingers
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tmux-fingers
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:tmux-fingers
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tmux-fingers>
- **Version:** 2.7.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Copy pasting in terminal with vimium/vimperator like hints
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers/archive/refs/tags/2.7.1.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-16T09:42:31Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-26T07:20:29+00:00

## Executables

- tmux-fingers (cli)
- tmux-fingers (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- bdw-gc
- pcre2
- tmux

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- crystal

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Einschränkungen: To initialize tmux-fingers add this to your tmux configuration file (~/.tmux.conf or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf): run 'tmux-fingers load-config'
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-26
- Manager-Version: 2.7.1
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-16
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
- neueste erkannte Version: 2.7.1 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

tmux-fingers is a tmux productivity plugin and CLI that overlays keyboard hints on recognizable text in a terminal pane, letting users copy, paste, open, or jump to a match with few keystrokes. Its interaction model is explicitly inspired by the keyboard hint systems in Vimium and Vimperator.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository began in 2016 as a tmux plugin for hint-driven selection of paths, hashes, addresses, and other terminal text. Version 1.0 in 2020 added system clipboard and opener integration, multiple selection, modifier-specific actions, and configurable keyboard layouts.

Version 2.0 in September 2023 rewrote the implementation in Crystal, switched pattern matching from ERE to PCRE, and expanded styling and capture support. Subsequent releases added jump mode, Termux and WSL improvements, cross-pane targeting, tighter system-clipboard controls, performance work, and standalone binaries for selected Linux and macOS platforms.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

tmux-fingers is distributed through Tmux Plugin Manager, manual repository installation, standalone release binaries, and Homebrew on macOS. The official GitHub repository has accumulated roughly 1,400 stars, reflecting durable adoption among keyboard-driven tmux users.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users normally add `Morantron/tmux-fingers` to the TPM plugin list in `~/.tmux.conf`, then press the tmux prefix followed by `F`. The plugin highlights built-in patterns such as file paths, URLs, SHAs, IP addresses, UUIDs, hexadecimal values, Kubernetes resources, and git status or diff paths; choosing a hint copies the matched text.

Options in `~/.tmux.conf` customize activation keys, regex patterns, actions, colors, hint position, keyboard layout, clipboard behavior, and bindings. Modifier keys can paste or open matches, Tab enables multi-selection, and the exposed CLI can be bound directly to arbitrary tmux target panes.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

tmux-fingers packages a browser-style hinting workflow as a composable tmux plugin while also shipping a compiled CLI. It is interesting to terminal-tool users because it bridges tmux configuration, PCRE-based recognition, native clipboard and opener integration, TPM installation, Homebrew packaging, and prebuilt binaries without requiring a graphical terminal feature.

### Zeitleiste

- 2016: The public tmux-fingers repository was created.
- 2020: Version 1.0 added OS clipboard integration, multi-select, modifier actions, and keyboard layouts.
- 2023: Version 2.0 rewrote the tool in Crystal and adopted PCRE patterns.
- 2024: The 2.x series added jump mode, Termux support, and XDG state directories for logs.
- 2026: Version 2.7 improved performance and expanded standalone binary support.

### Related projects

- tmux provides the multiplexer and configuration surface in which tmux-fingers runs.
- Tmux Plugin Manager is the recommended plugin installation mechanism.
- tmux-copycat is acknowledged by the author as a major inspiration for the predefined-search workflow.
- Vimium and Vimperator inspired the letter-hint interaction model.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/Morantron/tmux-fingers>
- <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers>
- <https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für tmux-fingers wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.tmux.conf
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** tmux-fingers
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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- [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db.
- [pcre2](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/pcre2/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [tmux](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/tmux/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [crystal](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/crystal/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tmux-fingers.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/tmux-fingers.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
