Hello,
I am a new tmux user and I am having a lot of trouble understanding the
behaviour of the target-pane "special tokens" after reading the following
extract from the manual:
* target-pane (or src-pane or dst-pane) may be a pane ID or takes a
similar form to target-window but with the*
* optional addition of a period followed by a pane index or pane ID,
for example: ‘mysession:mywindow.1’. If the*
* pane index is omitted, the currently active pane in the specified
window is used. The following special tokens*
* are available for the pane index:*
* Token Meaning*
* {last} ! The last (previously active) pane*
* {next} + The next pane by number*
* {previous} - The previous pane by number*
* {top} The top pane*
* {bottom} The bottom pane*
* {left} The leftmost pane*
* {right} The rightmost pane*
* {top-left} The top-left pane*
* {top-right} The top-right pane*
* {bottom-left} The bottom-left pane*
* {bottom-right} The bottom-right pane*
* {up-of} The pane above the active pane*
* {down-of} The pane below the active pane*
* {left-of} The pane to the left of the active pane*
* {right-of} The pane to the right of the active pane*
It is unclear to me what is the proper syntax to use these tokens. I ran
the simplest test I could think of to figure out how it works:
1. After creating a horizontal split with split-window -h now the right
pane is the active pane.
2. If I wanted to make the left pane the active pane I could (AFAIK) do
that by running any of the following commands:
- select-pane -L (works)
- select-pane -t - (works)
- select-pane -t {left} (works)
- select-pane -t {previous} (doesn't work)
- select-pane -t {left-of} (doesn't work)
Why some of these syntax works and some don't? if the "-" token works,
shouldn't "{previous}" work as well? I would appreciate if you could
clarify how to properly use these tokens.
Thank you in advance.
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