ZSH configuration to complete words from tmux pane(s)

_tmux_pane_words.zsh

# Complete words from tmux pane(s) {{{1
# Source: http://blog.plenz.com/2012-01/zsh-complete-words-from-tmux-pane.html
# Gist: https://gist.github.com/blueyed/6856354
_tmux_pane_words() {
  local expl
  local -a w
  if [[ -z "$TMUX_PANE" ]]; then
    _message "not running inside tmux!"
    return 1
  fi

  # Based on vim-tmuxcomplete's splitwords function.
  # https://github.com/wellle/tmux-complete.vim/blob/master/sh/tmuxcomplete
  _tmux_capture_pane() {
    tmux capture-pane -J -p -S -100 $@ |
      # Remove "^C".
      sed 's/\^C\S*/ /g' |
      # copy lines and split words
      sed -e 'p;s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/ /g' |
      # split on spaces
      tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' |
      # remove surrounding non-word characters
      =grep -o "\w.*\w"
  }
  # Capture current pane first.
  w=( ${(u)=$(_tmux_capture_pane)} )
  local i
  for i in $(tmux list-panes -F '#D'); do
    # Skip current pane (handled before).
    [[ "$TMUX_PANE" = "$i" ]] && continue
    w+=( ${(u)=$(_tmux_capture_pane -t $i)} )
  done
  _wanted values expl 'words from current tmux pane' compadd -a w
}

zle -C tmux-pane-words-prefix   complete-word _generic
zle -C tmux-pane-words-anywhere complete-word _generic
bindkey '^X^Tt' tmux-pane-words-prefix
bindkey '^X^TT' tmux-pane-words-anywhere
zstyle ':completion:tmux-pane-words-(prefix|anywhere):*' completer _tmux_pane_words
zstyle ':completion:tmux-pane-words-(prefix|anywhere):*' ignore-line current
# Display the (interactive) menu on first execution of the hotkey.
zstyle ':completion:tmux-pane-words-(prefix|anywhere):*' menu yes select interactive
# zstyle ':completion:tmux-pane-words-anywhere:*' matcher-list 'b:=* m:{A-Za-z}={a-zA-Z}'
zstyle ':completion:tmux-pane-words-(prefix|anywhere):*' matcher-list 'b:=* m:{A-Za-z}={a-zA-Z}'
# }}}

@blueyed - the echo on line 27 seems redundant. Thank you for sharing.

@pavoljuhas

@blueyed - the echo on line 27 seems redundant. Thank you for sharing.

Fixed - apparently from debugging.

Nice work; thanks. Would be nice if it ignored terminal escape sequences though, but I'm not sure how to encompass them all. A huge crazy regex? For now I just have to either disable colors or live with not being able to complete git output, grep output, etc.

edit - my bad, I just assumed it was the color because non-colored words were working, but the problem was actually words beginning with a period.