Imagine you're working in a tmux session, navigating logs, editing config files, or running commands, and you suddenly need to reuse a path, a variable name, or a keyword that appeared earlier on the tmux scrollback buffer. Instead of scrolling back or retyping it manually, you press Ctrl-n, type a few fuzzy letters, press enter, and the desired string from the tmux scrollback is instantly inserted at your cursor. The tmux scrollback buffer is the internal history of terminal output that tmux maintains for each pane. It consists of the lines that have scrolled off the visible screen but are … Continue reading →