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We want the behavior of the plugin to trigger when a user hits `prefix + T`.
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Key `T` is chosen:
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- it's kind of a mnemonic for `TPM`
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Key `T` is chosen because:
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- it's "kind of" a mnemonic for `TPM`
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- the key is not used by Tmux natively. Tmux man page, KEY BINDINGS section
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contains a list of all the bindings Tmux uses. We don't want to override a
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Tmux default, and there's plenty of unused keys.
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contains a list of all the bindings Tmux uses. We don't want to override any
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Tmux default binding, and there's plenty of unused keys.
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Open the plugin run file in your favorite text editor:
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Put the following content in the file:
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#!/usr/env/bin bash
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
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tmux bind-key T run-shell "$CURRENT_DIR/scripts/tmux_list_plugins.sh"
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relative to the plugin run file.
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### 4. create a script that does the job
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### 4. listing plugins
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Now that we have the binding, let's create a script that's invoked on
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`prefix + T`.
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And here's the script content:
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#!/usr/env/bin bash
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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# fetching the value of "tpm_plugins" option
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option_value=$(tmux show-option -gqv "@tpm_plugins")
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plugins_list=$(tmux show-option -gqv "@tpm_plugins")
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# displaying variable content
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echo $option_value
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# displaying variable content, line by line
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for plugin in $plugins_list; do
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echo $plugin
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done
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### 5. try it out
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That should set up the key binding. Now hit `prefix + T` and see if it works.
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If you get stuck you can download and check this tutorial
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[plugin here](https://github.com/bruno-/tmux_example_plugin).
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### 6. publish the plugin
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When everything works, push the plugin to an online git repository, preferably
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Hopefully, that was easy. As you can see, it's mostly shell scripting.
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You can also check source code of other plugins from the
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[List of plugins](PLUGINS.md).
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You can use other scripting languages (ruby, phyton etc), but plain old shell
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is preferred because it will work almost anywhere.
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