Not opening in tmux pane

[bodhy]

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Do I need to specify somewhere that it should open fzf in a tmux pane because it won't work automatically. It does work in the shell (zsh) when I specify export FZF_TMUX=1. I also tried it without my tmux configuration but it still didn't show.

[junegunn]

The latest version of fzf plugin prefers using --height instead of using tmux pane. Can you explain why you prefer the old behavior?

[junegunn]

I updated the vim plugin to respect let g:fzf_prefer_tmux = 1 (it was originally only used in Neovim context) to choose fzf-tmux over --height.

[bodhy]

I was just curious why is suddenly didn't work anymore; I thought I broke it or something. It's nice to use tmux's panes but it isn't a necessity.

[dsh2]

One reason might be to be able to use tmux's window management functions. For instance, if you want to toggle the zoom state of the fzf pane. For me, this becomes in particular useful when fuzzing over structured date, like csv.

I know about the option " --nth=N[,..]", but if I am not mistaken, it only limits the search scope, i.e. it is not possible in the query to refer to a particular field - which would be ULTRA AWESOME.