How I use my terminal

If you don't want to write a giant regex like this yourself, there are some ready-made tmux plugins that add things like this to copy-mode.

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

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

https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers

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

Any configuration or plugin that leans on the built-ins is probably going to be faster, so consider that w/r/t tmux-copycat.

I also really like tmux-resurrect, which saves and restores sessions for you; tmux-continuum, which runs those automatically; and the tmux-zen plugin for Oh-My-Fish:

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

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

https://github.com/sagebind/tmux-zen/tree/master

It's pretty easy to get a very nice tmux setup going!

Not to forget

https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

(similar to copycat) and

https://github.com/laktak/tome