Hi It would be nice to have a tmux command that conditonally send keys based on the program running in the focused pane.
See a use case with hacky workaround here: https://gist.github.com/tarruda/5158535 In the example, vim-tmux-move.zsh will navigate between tmux panes, but if the current pane is running vim, it will just send some keys(which vim will handle by navigating between splits, or will navigate to a tmux pane if the current split sits at an edge) There are other attempts to achieve the same thing: https://gist.github.com/mislav/5189704 Those scripts could be generalized into a script that accepts the following arguments: 1 - a program or pane identifier 2 - a tmux key-map or command remaining - a list of keys in the same format a send-keys The script would send the keys if the current pane matches the program name, else it would run the tmux command or keymap. The problem with this approach is efficiency: every time a key mapped to this script is pressed, a new shell has to be spawned, and that shell will invoke tmux commands. This seems a lot of trouble for simple things like integrating movement between tmux panes and another program that also has the concept of panes/splits. My suggestion is to add a new command that solves this problem by running other tmux commands based on a condition for example: bind M-p send-keys-if '#{pane_current_command} == vim' 'paste-buffer' 'Escape' 'p' This would run bind alt+p to tmux paste-buffer command, but if vim was focused it would send the keys necessary to invoke vim paste command. What do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
