tmux-yank VS tmux-copycat

Plugins for tmux like vim-tmux-yank or tmux-yank may be what you're looking for.

tmux-yank - easy integration of tmux clipboards and system ones + useful shortcuts eg: copy current pane's path to clipboard

You might get some joy from tmux-yank.

I find tmux-yank to be fairly awesome for this kind of thing.

I can highly recommend these tmux plugins that enhance the selection experience:

- https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

tmux-plugins/tmux-yank - A plugin that lets you copy to the system clipboard in tmux. You will need to install xsel or xclip if you are using X11 Window Manager (i.e. i3) or wl-clipboard if you are using Wayland Window Manager (i.e. sway). If you have tmux 1.5 or newer and are using xterm, you can use the y command in copy mode and mouse selection without tmux-yank. See the tmux(1) man page entry for the set-clipboard option.

Have you tried tmux-yank

For me personally tmux giver minor improvements (some of them are done by some terminals, some are not), e.g.:

* Text selection using variuos shortcuts (usually I use it only for URL):

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat

* FZF autocompletion from output, e.g. in case I want to diff some file I see changed in `git status`:

https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

The final workflow that comes to mind is using https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat and the prefix + ctrl-f command to jump between file paths, which could provide a faster way to get your file path from command output in tmux into vim.

tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat - A plugin that enhances tmux search. You should install gawk if you haven't already. As of tmux 3.1, regex searches are now natively supported. However, search result highlighting and predefined searches are reasons enough to keep using tmux-copycat.