dear reader, i think the conversation i had with NicM on irc explains about a feature request that i want to make.
feel free to comment on it with your ideas, i think it is a pretty good idea and might easily become a feature loved by many. 13:58 -!- Irssi: Join to #tmux was synced in 4 secs 13:59 < cies> just started with tmux, already loving it! (will proudly publish my .conf on github at some point) 14:00 < cies> but i have a question that i want to raise here before i might embarras myself on the mailing list 14:01 < cies> can i make a repeat key (with repeat-time) for last-window that brings me back in my window history 14:01 < cies> (like pressing it twice for the window before the window you where using before the window you use now 14:01 < cies> ) 14:02 < cies> bit like how alt-tab works for more WMs 14:04 < cies> then the kill question (/feature wish): suchs a repeatable command that also cycles through panes (if focus on those has changed in between the changes). 14:04 < cies> kill=killer 14:06 < cies> for this second question i also raise in my quest to a alt-tab mimicing thingy that can back-track my activity path of windows 14:09 < cies> if it is a feature request it could be "last-pane", whereby it will also go to the "last pane" if that is (on) another window 14:10 < cies> this command should, ovbiously, be repeat ready and might also take an integer argument 14:11 < cies> im sure it will be a big help for the generation that learn alt-tab before they learned about tmux (or screen and ancestors) 14:13 < cies> needless to say i want to bind this new command to Tab 14:15 < cies> (and if it takes and integer argument i will bind BTab to "last-pane -n 2" -- unless there is a "undo-last-pane" command, then i will bind that to BTab :-D 14:25 < NicM> cies, last-window already goes back through the history 14:25 < NicM> oh you mean go further back 14:25 < cies> NicM: indeed 14:26 < cies> mimicing alt-tabbish bahavoir 14:26 < NicM> there is no reason it couldn't but there isn't a command to do it 14:26 < cies> NicM: i gues if not implemented yet another list needs to be kept internally 14:26 < NicM> the last-pane thing we don't keep the data for 14:26 < NicM> but we could 14:26 < NicM> the windows there is a stack of the last windows 14:26 < cies> NicM: not a completely trivial thing but possible 14:27 < cies> NicM: ok, so for windows alone there is 14:27 < NicM> dunno why there needs to be a stack for windows 14:27 < NicM> since there is no way to get beyond -1 14:27 < cies> NicM: but not exposed by commands right? 14:27 < NicM> unless you kill the window 14:28 < cies> NicM: cycling through panes and windows equally would even be cooler right? 14:28 < NicM> panes and windows equally could be done 14:28 < NicM> panes and windows equally could be done 14:28 < NicM> but sessions and windows would be harder 14:29 < NicM> but yeah you could make a pane stack easily enough 14:29 < cies> NicM: should i send this to a list? or would it be easy for me to implement as a patch? 14:29 < cies> NicM: tmux is c code i guess? 14:29 < NicM> i think last-window should take an argument to go further down the stack 14:29 < NicM> well it depends how good your C is how easy it would be to implement 14:30 < cies> NicM: yes, AND it should be repeatable :) 14:30 < NicM> a pane stack would be fine 14:31 < NicM> since panes are only in 1 window right now 14:31 < NicM> if you have a pane you also have its window 14:31 < cies> ok 14:31 < NicM> the problemw ould be if someone moved that window to another session 14:31 < NicM> you'd have to either remove it from the stack, or make sure you skipped it 14:32 < cies> it should just test for that and skip it 14:32 < NicM> well you'd store the pane stack in the session 14:32 < NicM> so you could just check the window the pane was in was still in the session 14:32 < cies> removing form the list would be nice if choose-pane was to be implemented aswell 14:33 < NicM> note there is a last-pane command in CVS HEAD 14:33 < NicM> but it just behaves like last-window 14:33 < cies> ok 14:33 < cies> so the last-pane is already kept 14:33 < NicM> but we can possibly remove that behaviour since yours would be the same 14:33 < NicM> or better 14:33 < NicM> it'd be the same if the panes were in the same window ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
