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Quickly getting between tmux splits is critical skill for productivity. You can get by with next or prev session for awhile, but if you have more than about three session you need something a bit more targeted.

Full Screen selector

I have used this fzf one keybinding for quite awhile, honestly I did not make it up, and cannot remember where it came from. It will open up a session picker in a new full screen window.








        

bind C-j new-window -n "session-switcher" "\
    tmux list-sessions -F '#{?session_attached,,#{session_name}}' |\
    sed '/^$/d' |\
    fzf --reverse --header jump-to-session --preview 'tmux capture-pane -pt {}'  |\
    xargs tmux switch-client -t"

Popup selector

Like with many of my keybindings I have swapped this one out for a popup version. It just feels so smooth.








        

bind C-j display-popup -E "\
    tmux list-sessions -F '#{?session_attached,,#{session_name}}' |\
    sed '/^$/d' |\
    fzf --reverse --header jump-to-session --preview 'tmux capture-pane -pt {}'  |\
    xargs tmux switch-client -t"

https://waylonwalker.com/tmux-nav-2021/

for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.