Tmux Run External Commands In Copy Mode

emulate right click "search google for {text}" like you do in GUI web browsers. We can do other custom commands also like search highlighted text in wikipedia, translate, text to speech and many others. Think of other stuff to use it with like mps-youtube, youtube-viewer, torrents ...etc. Share with me if you got some good ones =)

tutorial video: Link
offical website: Link

install requirements

tmux surfraw w3m translate-shell

configuration

vim ~/.tmux.conf

# tmux 2.4 or higher examples =====================
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'o' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n google \; send-keys -t google 'sr google "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'i' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n imagegoogle \; send-keys -t imagegoogle 'sr imagesgoogle "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'p' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n wikipedia \; send-keys -t wikipedia 'sr wikipedia "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'u' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n youtube \; send-keys -t youtube 'mpsyt /"$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'O' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n w3m \; send-keys -t w3m 'w3m "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'

# translate, dictionary, text to speech
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 't' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n translate \; send-keys -t translate 'translate-shell es "$(tmux show-buffer)" | w3m && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'd' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n dict \; send-keys -t dict 'translate-shell -d "$(tmux show-buffer)" | w3m && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 's' send-keys -X copy-selection \; new-window -n speak \; send-keys -t speak 'translate-shell -brief "$(tmux show-buffer)" -play && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'





# tmux 2.3 or lower examples ===================
bind-key -t vi-copy s copy-selection \; new-window -n gsearch \; send-keys -t gsearch 'sr google "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'

bind-key -t vi-copy o copy-selection \; new-window -n google \; send-keys -t google 'sr -browser=elinks google "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -t vi-copy i copy-selection \; new-window -n imagegoogle \; send-keys -t imagegoogle 'sr imagesgoogle "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -t vi-copy p copy-selection \; new-window -n wikipedia \; send-keys -t wikipedia 'sr wikipedia "$(tmux show-buffer)" && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -t vi-copy t copy-selection \; new-window -n translate \; send-keys -t translate 'translate-shell es "$(tmux show-buffer)" | w3m && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -t vi-copy d copy-selection \; new-window -n dict \; send-keys -t dict 'translate-shell -d "$(tmux show-buffer)" | w3m && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'
bind-key -t vi-copy s copy-selection \; new-window -n speak \; send-keys -t speak 'translate-shell -brief "$(tmux show-buffer)" -play && tmux kill-window' 'Enter'

Usage

Enter into copy mode Prefix + ], then highlight the text you want, then hit the hotkey you binded in our configurations above

references

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