tmux/Q/Is there a way to fuzzy find through the directories that are open in my tmux panes?

• Is there a way to fuzzy find through the directories that are open in my tmux/Panes?

  • AI Answer

    • Short answer: yes — tmux exposes each pane's working directory as the pane_current_path format variable, so you can list every pane across all sessions and windows and pipe it through fzf, then jump straight to the match.
    • Native command, no plugin required:
      • bash

        tmux list-panes -a -F "#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index} #{pane_current_path}" | fzf

      • Parse the selected line and run tmux switch-client -t <session> \; select-window -t <window> \; select-pane -t <pane> to land on it. A worked version of this script (also matching on window name, pane title, and current command, not just the path) is in tmux and fzf: fuzzy tmux session/window/pane switcher.
    • Ready-made plugin: tmux-fuzzywuzzy fuzzy-searches sessions/windows/panes with a live preview. Install via tmux/Plugin/Manager:

      • set -g @plugin 'cfoust/tmux-fuzzywuzzy'
        set -g @fuzzy-wuzzy "b"

      • Then trigger it with prefix + b (or whichever key you bind).
    • This is the pane-directory-scoped sibling of the ff file-fuzzy-finder already noted on fzf — same underlying idea, applied to pane_current_path instead of a directory tree.