A tmux menu to expose some of the functionality surrounding panes in tmux. It's the kind of thing that will help reduce the amount of tmux prefix shortcuts you have to remember and/or configure.

We have some basic stuff to begin with:

• Zoom pane to maximie the pane you're currently using.
• Show a clock in a pane (neat party trick lol, and good for being mindful about the time when getting lost in having fun).
• Kill a pane if/when for whatever reason it stops responding.

You have your normal way of doing splits and maybe your abnormal ones:

• Split horizontal (a pane is split down the middle)
• Split vertical (a pane is split across)
• Create new splits above or below in full width.
• Create splits to the left or right in full height.

Of course you can also navigate between panes with this little menu. The menu will stay on screen while you navigate so it's easy to quickly navigate once you have begun. You can also:

• Navigate to a pane in a visual way.
• Navigate the last active pane.

Get all your resizing done with this menu with w, a, s, d keys and feel like a million bucks.

Rotate your panes, swap them, break them put into new windows, send them to existing windows or use layout prefixes :-)

Use TPM for a smooth experience. Add this to your tmux.conf:

set -g @plugin 'datamadsen/tmux-pane-menu'

Then hit prefix + I and you're good to go. Use prefix + U from time to time to update plugins managed by TPM.

By default the menu is invoked with prefix + p (p for pane), but you can change it like this in your tmux.conf:

set -g @pane_menu_trigger 'a'

If you want to invoke it without tmux' prefix, e.g. with Ctrl-P, you can configure that like this:

set -g @pane_menu_trigger 'C-p'