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Zellij is pretty great, and I recommend others check it out. The UI is extremely slick, and getting a comfortable setup is nicer (to me) than tmux or screen.

Unfortunately, it's missing one key feature that keeps me from using it as a daily-driver: it doesn't appear to be possible to attach to an existing session by automatically creating a new tab or pane. iTerm2 has fantastic integration with tmux that allows it to directly create a new tmux tab for every native iTerm2 split or tab, and I was hoping to recreate that with Zellij, outside of iTerm2.

It _is_ possible to open a new tab with the `new-tab` action (or whatever it's called), but unfortunately, there's no way to do that "in the background": one of your open sessions always switches to that new tab when it opens. I don't know if this is a limitation of the session/tab system, but when I dug through the source, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why this was happening.

I did spend some time trying to contribute a flag to allow attaching to existing sessions with a new tab/pane, but the actual architecture in place back then made this very difficult to support without non-trivial refactoring (and at least at the time, Zellij wasn't accepting any major contributions that weren't directly aligned with the roadmap, which I respect: there's only enough time in the day to review random PRs).

I check back periodically; if this is made possible at some point, I'd love to switch to it.

[resonious]

I'm a Linux user so of course I think like this, but: why use the native terminal tabs? I use Kitty with window decorations turned off, and Zellij provides all the UI I need.

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You're right, good question. At least partially, habit and muscle memory. I'm used to the keybindings, and the behavior for navigating tabs/splits/panes (across macOS, Windows, and Linux).

But also, native splits/panes and tabs cover 90% of what I really want from a multiplexer, so it's easier for me personally to stick with familiar behavior than to integrate another tool into my workflow just to recreate it.

[DEADMINCE]

That has nothing to do with you being a linux user.

[xhrpost]

I feel similar in that there are great strengths but some things are missing. I love that mouse highlight-to-copy will wrap within the current pane rather than span panes. But mouse pane re-size like in tmux is currently not available.