Tmux's display-panes

[fedoranvar]

Good day to you!

Haven't found in #376 about it, so question is:

is it possible to display-panes to jump instantly to pane like tmux?

Thank you!

[a-kenji]

Hello! Thank you for taking the time reaching out.

What tmux calls panes we call tabs, so if you bind:
https://zellij.dev/documentation/keybindings-actions.html#gototab-index
You should be able to switch between them.

Also, if you use the default configuration you should be able to press ctrl-a and then a number.

[fedoranvar]

You're right, i meant windows in TMUX. but in tmux display-panes really shows id-numbers above windows - so user could jump right into it
and sorry, i've pasted confusing screenshot, here is another one :

and also question:
How to keep borders, but remove name of panes or rename them?

Thank you!

[imsnif]

Hey, we don't yet have a way to remove the pane title (it's usually not "Pane #" but rather something set by your shell or application running inside the terminal like vim - but some shells don't do this).

About the original issue - I'm not sure I understand. Are you asking for the feature that would show the pane numbers above the panes themselves? Or a way to start Zellij focused on a specific pane/tab, or?

[a-kenji]

No problem, we don't have that yet.
But that would be a great feature!

How to keep borders, but remove name of panes or rename them?

The panes have a placeholder in them, for example "Pane #1", they are not the names of the panes per se, they are the title the shell, or programs inside the pane provide them.

Many shells provide a convenience functionality for setting the title of your shell.
If you use that functionality of your shell you can set it to an empty string, and that would remove the pane title for you.

[fedoranvar]

@imsnif

About original issue, general purpose is for navigating bnetween panes by direct jumping.

example:
display-panes called - numbers (or alphabetics) appeared - i press number (or alpha) of my choice - cursor jumped to desired pane

here is exract from man tmux

display-panes [-t target-client]
                   (alias: displayp)
             Display a visible indicator of each pane shown by target-client.
             See the display-panes-time, display-panes-colour, and
             display-panes-active-colour session options.  While the indicator
             is on screen, a pane may be selected with the ‘0’ to ‘9’ keys.

[imsnif]

Aha, I get it now. Thanks for the explanation! I'll put a Help Wanted on this and see if anyone wants to take it up.

[c02y]

This is one of the tmux features I missed.