Hi could be considered to add an option to hide/unhide a pane or window? #3047
Description
This is actually a feature request,
Could we consider to add an option to hide/unhide a pane like the resize-pane -Z but inverse? The idea is to be hable to open a temporal panel and keep the history information. (Useful for example when working with an editor and want to compile or debug the current code temporarily, and go back and forth)
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I tried something like
resize-pane -t 2:0.1 -y 0but it keeps one line of the target pane, so it not really hiden. -
Then I have a bash script like this:
_split() {
local wid=$(tmux display-message -p '#{window_id}')
local toggledid="$(tmux show-options -wv @toggleid)"
local stack=":1000"
# var is set session exists
if [[ ! -z "${toggledid}" ]] && $(tmux has-session -t $toggledid); then
local toggledwid=$(tmux display-message -p -t ${toggledid} '#{window_id}')
if [[ "${toggledwid}" == "${wid}" ]]; then
# Panel exists and is visible.. so hide it
if $(tmux has-session -t "${stack}"); then
# The window stack already exists, so append
tmux join-pane -dv -s "${toggledid}" -t "${stack}.bottom"
else
# The window 100 does not exists, so break (to create)
tmux break-pane -d -n "stack" -s "${toggledid}" -t "${stack}" \;\
set -w -t "${stack}" window-status-current-format '#[bg=red,fg=colour15,bold] #W ' \;\
set -w -t "${stack}" window-style bg=blue \;\
set -w -t "${stack}" window-active-style bg=blue \;\
set -w -t "${stack}" pane-border-status top
fi
else
# The pane exists in other window so, get it back
tmux join-pane -v -l 10 -s "${toggledid}" -t ".bottom"
fi
else
# The pane does not exist, so create one and it gets active
tmux split-window -v -c '#{pane_current_path}' -l 10 -t ".bottom" \;\
set -wF -q @toggleid '#{pane_id}'
fi
}
That goes around the limitation a bit, but it is very limited and sometimes conflicts with next-window or swap-window.
So far I see several possible solutions here:
- Allow negative values for windows, meaning that any value below
base-indexis considered likedisabledbut still local to this section. This may work but has a side effect of keeping session fully hidden, so maybe requires extra modifications... - Really hide the pane somehow
(looking at the code it may be something like what zoom-window does but calling:
wp1->saved_layout_cell = wp1->layout_cell;
wp1->layout_cell = NULL;
But applied for a single pane.
3. Allow zero sizes in the resize-pane command so the panel will be here but not visible.
4. Implement a sort of toggle pane inherent to every window that can be hidden like the status-bar.
Does it makes sence?
Best,
Ergus