Thank you for the quick reply. It was a quotation problem indeed. It is
strange that some tokens worked without them though, for instance {right}
worked but {next} didn't. It is worth mentioning that I had to use quotes
in both the .tmux.conf file and in the command prompt for the commands that
didn't work to function correctly.
On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:25:28 UTC+1, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>>
> 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.
> >
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