Custom window name format

[joshmedeski]

As a user, I want to manually configure a custom layout for displaying the name and icon for a window.

Perhaps we allow a tmux style

config:
  format: "#W #I"

• "#W" = window name
• "#I" = icon

It would be cool to add color support too, but maybe that's for a future PR, similar to how the tmux status elements are styled.

config:
  format: "#[fg=blue,nobold]#I #[fg=white,nobold]#W"

[hqkhan]

It would be cool to add color support too, but maybe that's for a future PR, similar to how the tmux status elements are styled.

I do agree that the first step should be to take what is currently available and port to a yaml file. Then we can iteratively improve upon it.

A question about the "color support". How would it interact with:

set -g pane-active-border-style     'fg=magenta,bg=default'
set -g pane-border-style            'fg=brightblack,bg=default'

[petobens]

Hi @joshmedeski. Great plugin! Is it possible to add a setting to show icons to the right of the window name instead of left of it? Do you want me open a new issue for this?

[joshmedeski]

Thanks @petobens! I'm open to a new issue with a simple feature flag to implement icons to the right.

I think this custom format feature is going to take more work, and I don't have this at the top of my list of things to do.

[petobens]

Ok! Done in #29

[worldsayshi]

I added a workaround in #41 (comment) that might be interesting for anyone who goes here.

My suggestion to how to solve this issue is to inverse the control and let the plugin define a variable that can then be used in the tmux config when the user defines automatic-rename-format instead of the plugin setting the automatic-rename-format option itself.

That would break the api for existing users though. Ooops.