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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-for...
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Alexei
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2021-06-14T13:05:46Z (over 3 years ago)
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Quasímodo
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2021-06-14T00:24:23Z (over 3 years ago)
Show the command argument in Tmux status-line
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".
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