They all work for me. You may need to put '{left-of}' in single quotes
if you are using them from the command prompt.On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 18:33, Carles Ràfols <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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: > > After creating a horizontal split with split-window -h now the right pane is > the active pane. > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tmux-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/d3d1e045-4aac-4b64-8e10-f3b3da53dd92%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAEdLfcFkNuckv%2BAjekx80xvk-BRazpozeDzo0x6L57eAZg%3DFNg%40mail.gmail.com.
