Would fig not fit this usecase? I seem to be misunderstanding the post a bit. It seems like he's going through great lengths not to use cursor? This regex must of been gnarly to write
># i am so sorry > # see `search-regex.sh` for wtf this means ># TODO: include shell variable names bind-key f copy-mode \; send-keys -X search-backward \ '(^|/|\<|[[:space:]"])((\.|\.\.)|[[:alnum:]~_"-]*)((/[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+)+([/ "]|\.([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?)|[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)(:[0-9]+)?)|(/[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+){2,}([/ "]|\.([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?)|[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)(:[0-9]+)?)?|(\.|\.\.)/([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?))'
This is pure quantum flux