On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 09:10:45AM -0700, Shay Agros wrote:
> Hi,
> This functionality feels to me like it can be possible but I can't seem to
> find it.
> I want to get the panes id of all panes in a window *by their geometrical
> location*. Meaning that I need to know what is the index of the upper-left
> pane, the index of the pane to its right etc.
>
> Ideally, I could describe a window's panes and have their geometric
> location and dimension inside a window (for each pane know its x, y and
> height, width) so that I could match between their location and their ids,
> but I couldn't find such information.
>
> I also tried using something like the following:
> first=$(tmux display-message -p -t {top-left} '#{pane_id}')
> second=$(tmux display-message -p -t ${first} -t {right-of}
> '#{pane_id}')
> third=$(tmux display-message -p -t ${first} -t {down-of} '#{pane_id}')
> fourth=$(tmux display-message -p -t ${third} -t {right-of}
> '#{pane_id}')
>
> but I don't seem to be able to concatenate the '-t' parameters so that it
> would work relatively to the one before it.
> I guess I would be able to make it work if I actually change the focus and
> call `display-message` each time, but this would create an annoying jitter
> on the screen (this should happen fast, and I don't really need the focus
> to change).
>
> Also I don't want to rely on having only 4 panes (in which case I could use
> {top-left}, {bottom-left} and similar), and I don't want to rely on
> creating the panes in a specific order (which would give them subsequent
> ids) but rather to only depend on the pane's geometrical location when
> invoking my command.
>
> Does the functionality I'm looking for exists ? Alternatively, is it
> difficult to implement ? (I'm guessing tmux does hold the dimensions and
> location of each pane inside a window).
What about something like this:
tmux list-panes -F '#{pane_top} #{pane_left} #{pane_index}' | sort -n
this should list panes top-down and left-to-right.
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