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by ramraj07 2249 days ago
Tmux is amazing, my only request is there be an option to name panes (with the names showing perpetually on top or bottom of the pane). Every time I ssh into an ec2 instance I can't remember what logs are showing in each pane!
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You can do this. Turn on pane status lines (set `pane-border-status` option to `top` or `bottom`). You can then change `pane-border-format` to contain the text you want. It can show the application-set pane title (`#{pane_title}`, also settable with `selectp -T`) or anything else really.

There are no builtin pane names but if you are running tmux 3.0a or later you can just set a pane user option like `set -p @myname name1` then use it in `pane-border-format` with `#{@myname}`.