flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of
Details
- External ID
- 46585956
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Most neovim users will be familiar with flash.nvim, which amongst other things, allows you to quickly jump to a word in your visible buffer. It’s a great tool for developers who want to quickly navigate their codebase.I was looking for something similar, but for tmux. I wanted to be able to search visible words in the current tmux pane, then copy that word to the system clipboard by pressing the associated label key.I built https://github.com/Kristijan/flash-copy.tmux, with the aim to bring that functionality to tmux.Here’s a bit of a write up https://blog.kristijan.org/posts/TMUX-Flash-Copy for those interested. I welcome any feedback.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tmux navigation tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a terminal utility or tmux plugin combining tmux's capture-pane API with a fuzzy finder or terminal overlay like fzf/fzy, well within the scope of AI-assisted scripting.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 49 days after the earliest competitor.
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- fireworks.nvim · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- Waypoint.nvim · hn · 2026-07-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Naymo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- vellum.nvim · github · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Clippy for Vim · hn · 2026-06-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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