Another thing you could do if you are using 3.2-rc or master is to write a simple shell script that shows a menu to choose a window or session in a way you want, or uses something like dialog or fzf, and open it in a popup using display-popup.
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 13:28, Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> wrote: > You can change the s and w key bindings to add -Otime, something like: > > bind s choose-tree -Zs -Otime > bind w choose-tree -Zw -Otime > > You can look at these for choose-tree: > > > https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Getting-Started#choosing-sessions-windows-and-panes > https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1#choose-tree > > You can use filters to show only a subset, for example: > > choose-tree -Zw -f '#{m:*sh,#{window_name}}' > > Of course the filter can be much more complicated than this. > > If you want to create subsets of windows you could set a user option, for > example do this on the windows you want: > > set -w @mysubset 'yes' > > And then you can filter only the ones where this option is set: > > choose-tree -Zw -f '#{==:yes,#{@mysubset}}' > > Of course you can bind these to keys to make them easier to use. > > find-window (C-b f) works by generating filters automatically for tree > mode. > > See: > > https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Formats > https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Formats#choose-modes-and-formats > > > > On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 13:19, Roberto Franceschini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for pointing the capital O key for changing the sort >> ordering. It does exactly what I was looking for and it seems to sort both >> sessions and windows inside each session. This is very nice. >> I was wondering if I can make this my default sorting, instead of >> pressing O twice every time I open the sessions or windows lists. >> >> Also, what part of the documentation would be relevant to read more on >> this and other ways to interact with the windows lists? >> >> Concerning bookmarks, you are correct, the windows name is the place to >> use. I have chosen to have windows names set dynamically from the path of >> the folder they are in, so I have given up that in favor of showing PWD in >> the window name. The bookmarks where more intended to have a subset of the >> existing windows reachable pressing a single key, a sort of quick-dial in >> which you list only a subset of the windows you have and can access them by >> a conifgurable single stroke (e.g. b for build, r for run, d for debug and >> so no ...). Maybe I am just thinking about a configurable shortcut for >> certain windows, indest of having them bound to the standard 0-10 M-a to >> M-z. Can these be configured to access a given window of a given session by >> one single user-defined key or sequence? >> >> Best >> Roberto >> >> >> >> On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 10:51:16 AM UTC+2 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> If you go into tree mode and press O to change the sort order, one of >>> the orders is by time which will show sessions and windows in order of >>> activity time. >>> >>> tmux does maintain a stack of the last windows for each session and >>> there is no reason it couldn't sort each session's windows using it but >>> currently it is not possible. >>> >>> There is no way to set bookmarks but it doesn't seem terribly useful to >>> me - that's what window and session names are for. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 09:37, Roberto <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I have maybe 100 panes in 10+ sessions kept running thanks to tmux. >>>> These are mostly to collect a separate bash history for different >>>> repetitive, but not completely predictable, tasks. >>>> >>>> Navigating this many sessions and panes is a bit of a pain, but I think >>>> there are possible helping features in tmux. >>>> >>>> I could exploit a "history" and a "bookmarks" panel, pretty much >>>> similar to those you have in web browsers. Is there anything like that in >>>> tmux as of now? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/22B4DC91-0C1D-4BE0-A8C6-FE5B1577C9EC%40gmail.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/13b97df0-4784-485c-a662-a9ba2984ecc7n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/13b97df0-4784-485c-a662-a9ba2984ecc7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/CAEdLfcE5f60gDXnoKPG_GzVLsx1RUCeAEiLysiRF%2BrPFp6GBWA%40mail.gmail.com.
