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Install tmux-fingers with Homebrew

Copy pasting in terminal with vimium/vimperator like hints. Version 2.7.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-16.

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macOS

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brew install tmux-fingers

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overview

Package summary

Copy pasting in terminal with vimium/vimperator like hints

Commands and aliases

  • tmux-fingers

history

Project history and usage

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.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

  • 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.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for tmux-fingers. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

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Configuration files

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~/.tmux.conf

executables

Installed executables

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tmux-fingerscliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-07-26
manager version2.7.1
manager updated2026-07-16
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected2.7.1

https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:tmux-fingers
Version2.7.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tmux-fingers
Homepagehttps://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
Repositoryhttps://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
Upstream docshttps://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers/archive/refs/tags/2.7.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-16T09:42:31Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesbdw-gc, pcre2, tmux
Build dependenciescrystal
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared
CaveatsTo initialize tmux-fingers add this to your tmux configuration file (~/.tmux.conf or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf): run 'tmux-fingers load-config'

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nametmux-fingers
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

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Related tools

  • pcre2Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • tmuxRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • crystalBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • tmux-xpanesPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, productivity, terminal, tmux.
  • tmux-sessionizerPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, productivity, tmux.

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