Defining new stored searches

To speed up the workflow you can define new bindings in .tmux.conf for searches you use often.

After adding any of the below snippets, make sure to reload your tmux configuration:

# type this in the terminal
$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Dummy examples (just for testing):

• prefix + ctrl-t example string search

    set -g @copycat_search_C-t 'search me'
  

• prefix + alt-t example regex search

    set -g @copycat_search_M-t 'regex search[[:alnum:]]\*'
  

Useful searches

• prefix + ctrl-e in the Rails log output searches for previous request start

    set -g @copycat_search_C-e '^Processing[[:space:]]by[[:space:]][^[:space:]]*'
  

• prefix + D searches for numbers at the beginning of line. Useful with $ pgrep -lf process command to quickly select process PID.

    set -g @copycat_search_D '^[[:digit:]]+'
  

• prefix + G searches for git commit SHA1. Works for both the short (5 chars) and full (40 chars) versions.

    set -g @copycat_search_G '\b[0-9a-f]{5,40}\b'