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Hint Mode
Vimium-style keyboard navigation. Press one shortcut, every clickable target gets a 2-letter label, type the label to "click" it.
Activating
| Goal | Binding |
|---|---|
| Hint to open | ⌘⇧J |
| Hint to copy | ⌘⇧Y |
| Hint to reveal in Finder | ⌘⇧R |
| Cancel | Esc |
After triggering, every match in the visible viewport (and scrollback for hint-to-copy) gets a label. Type the 2-letter label and the action runs.
What's hinted
- File paths (absolute, tilde, relative — same set as Files and Links)
- URLs (incl. OSC 8 hyperlinks)
- Git commit hashes (
[0-9a-f]{7,}adjacent to repo context) - IP addresses
- User-defined regex patterns
Customising patterns
hint-pattern = "TICKET-\\d+" # add a custom matcher
hint-pattern-action = "open https://linear.app/team/issue/{0}"The {0} placeholder gets the matched text. Repeat hint-pattern for multiple patterns.
Differences from ⌘click
⌘click works on one target — the one under the cursor. Hint mode is faster when you have several targets visible and don't want to mouse over each.
See also
- Files and Links — what's clickable.
- Vi Mode — keyboard selection (complementary).