Tag and kill several Tmux windows
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Last edited: $Date: 2020/12/21 20:57:15 $
At the end of the day I usually end up with a lot of
windows in my Tmux session, each with one or
sometimes two panes (I have almost never more than
two panes in any of my Tmux window).
Usually I don't want to kill my entire Tmux session,
so I have to close the windows I won't be needing
the next day.
Tmux tree mode
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For this, the Tmux tree mode is very useful.
Tmux tree mode displays a list to browse sessions,
windows and panes in the upper part of the window.
In the lower part of the window Tmux tree mode
displays a part of the pane(s) of the current
window. Using the up and down arrow keys, or j and k
if you activated vi mode, selects other windows in
the list and shows the pane(s) of those windows.
This is an easy way to search for a certain pane,
but is also useful for other actions.
The list starts with sessions expanded so windows
are shown and with the current window in the
attached session selected.
``O`` (shift-o) reverses the sort order.
You can tag items in the tree with ``t``. ``t``
toggles the tag, so hitting ``t`` again will untag
the item. ``T`` (shift-t) untags all tagged items,
and ``Ctrl-t`` tags all times in the list.
The default key binding for switching to tree mode
is ``<prefix>-w``.
My Tmux configuration binds ``<prefix>`` to ``Ctrl-
a``.
This means that ``Ctrl-A w`` switches to tree mode.
Killing windows
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After selecting one or more windows with ``t``, you
can kill all tagged windows with ``X`` (shift-x).
This will kill the tagged windows including all the
panes in the tagged windows.
Entire workflow
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Wrapping it up, this means, at the end of the day, I
do:
Ctrl-A w
... tag windows with t
X
