tmux even easier: tm with fuzzy completion

You may have seen the “fuzzy” Bash completion I linked to in my up post yesterday. I applied the same technique to my [tm] utility for completing tmux session and window names.

I find this handy because if I type part of a name thinking I’m jumping to a session, but that session has ended, I end up creating a new session with a partial name. With completion, I can type my partial name and hit tab to be sure there will be a match before running.

If you have no arguments and hit tab, it will list all sessions. Typing any part of a session name will begin matching, e.g. j⇥ will expand to a session named “jekyll,” as will kl⇥. Any part of the name is valid for matching, and it’s case insensitive.

If you have a session in the arguments already, it will begin completing window names for that session, or listing all windows if you hit tab after a space following the session name. Window names are entirely optional in tm.

Yes, I cheated a little and defaulted to Ruby for some of the string handling, but I decided a while ago that there’s really no crime in that.

If you’re still reading and are a tmux user, I’ll assume you know what to do with this script. That’s fair, right?

_tm_complete() {
	local rx
	local token=${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}
	local IFS=$'\t'
	local words
	if [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 2 ]; then
		words=$(tmux list-windows -t ${COMP_WORDS[1]} 2> /dev/null | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '*-' | tr "\n" "\t")
	elif [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]; then
		words=$(tmux -q list-sessions 2> /dev/null | cut -f 1 -d ':' | tr "\n" "	")
	fi

	local nocasematchWasOff=0
	shopt nocasematch >/dev/null || nocasematchWasOff=1
	(( nocasematchWasOff )) && shopt -s nocasematch

	local w matches=()

	if [[ $token == "" ]]; then
		matches=($words)
	else
		for w in $words; do
			rx=$(ruby -e "print '$token'.gsub(/\s+/,'').split('').join('.*')")
			if [[ "$w" =~ $rx ]]; then
				matches+=($w)
			fi
		done
	fi

	(( nocasematchWasOff )) && shopt -u nocasematch

	COMPREPLY=("${matches[@]}")
}

complete -F _tm_complete tm