Re:Tmux for Mere Mortals
by ramraj07 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:17AM
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Tmux is amazing, my only request is there be an option to name panes (with the names showing perpetually on top or bottom of the pane). Every time I ssh into an ec2 instance I can't remember what logs are showing in each pane!
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You can do this. Turn on pane status lines (set `pane-border-status` option to `top` or `bottom`). You can then change `pane-border-format` to contain the text you want. It can show the application-set pane title (`#{pane_title}`, also settable with `selectp -T`) or anything else really.
There are no builtin pane names but if you are running tmux 3.0a or later you can just set a pane user option like `set -p @myname name1` then use it in `pane-border-format` with `#{@myname}`.