There is no way to say "left of pane X" without making X the active pane,
you would need to use select-pane before left-of/right-of.
It would probably not be too hard to implement this but I am not sure if
the best way would be by modifying display-pane or adding a format modifier
(so you do eg #{p/left-of:%1} or something). I think the latter would be
better.
It may be possible just to offer the pane's position in the window as
format variable, but I'm not sure how that would work with more than four
panes. If you have 8 panes do you try to do something like "top-left+1"?
"top+1-left+1"?
On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 17:10, Shay Agros <[email protected]> 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).
>
> thanks,
> Shay
>
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