I think a flag to kill-window would be better than a new command but
otherwise concept seems fine to me.


On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:17:03AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I often find myself starting up a new session in tmux with the intent of it
> being for a specific purpose, and naming it as such with "rename-session".
> But in the course of me doing that, I often end up opening several windows,
> all of which are a means to an end, and quickly need to go, as I then want
> to clear all windows and concentrate on just one of them.
> 
> Funnily enough, Vim has an ":only" command which will kill other windows
> except one of them.  I'm considering whether this functionality is useful in
> tmux.  So for example, we might have:
> 
> kill-windows-except [-s target session] [-w target window]
> 
> which would kill all windows in a session except the named window, or the
> currently focused window, if no options were given.
> 
> Is this functionality desired, I wonder?  I know I'd personally find it
> useful, but that's no guarantee.  :)
> 
> If so, I'll code it up, it's trivial, but I wanted to ask first.
> 
> Kindly,
> 
> -- Thomas Adam
> 
> -- 
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> not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
> 
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