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Show the command argument in Tmux status-line

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This is the relevant fragment of my Tmux configuration file.

set  -g  automatic-rename              on
set  -g  automatic-rename-format       "#{pane_current_command}"
set  -g  window-status-format          "#I:#W"
set  -g  window-status-current-format  "#I:#W"

With that, each window is represented by "{index}:{current_pane_command}" in the status-line. This is quite useful to know which window to jump to with Prefix+Number, except when, for example, two windows are displaying man-pages, since then both windows are listed as "{index}:man".

Status-line with two "man"

Can I configure Tmux such that the window name also includes the first argument (if any) to the command? In that case, the line would show

1:top|2:man sh|3:man tmux
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