Better defaults, less verbosity

[rafi]

Better defaults, less verbosity:

• Default focus behavior: (Argument: Normally being first means top priority)
  • Focus the first window
  • Focus the first pane in every window
• Change suppress_history default to false (Argument: More common to re-use a command after CTRL+C for example, suppress should be the exception)
• Allow name instead (or as-well) as window_name (Argument: We're already in the windows collection)
• Allow shell instead (or as-well) as shell_command (Argument: Verbose, two words)

BEFORE                                                                │ AFTER
---                                                                   │ ---
                                                                      │
session_name: acme                                                    │   session_name: acme
start_directory: ./                                                   │   start_directory: ./
suppress_history: false                                               │   windows:
windows:                                                              │     - name: edit
  - window_name: edit                                                 │       panes:
    focus: true                                                       │         - nvim -S ~/.cache/vim/session/acme-react-native.vim
    panes:                                                            │     - name: git
      - nvim -S ~/.cache/vim/session/acme-react-native.vim            │       panes:
  - window_name: git                                                  │         - shell:
    panes:                                                            │           - git status -sb
      - shell_command:                                                │           - git log --graph --all --oneline --decorate
        - git status -sb                                              │     - name: android
        - git log --graph --all --oneline --decorate                  │       layout: main-vertical
  - window_name: android                                              │       panes:
    layout: main-vertical                                             │         - shell:
    panes:                                                            │           - sleep 2
      - focus: true                                                   │           - react-native run-android
        shell_command:                                                │         - shell:
        - sleep 2                                                     │           - sleep 2
        - react-native run-android                                    │           - adb logcat
      - shell_command:                                          ---------→      - react-native start
        - sleep 2                                                     │     - name: db
        - adb logcat                                                  │       layout: main-vertical
      - react-native start                                            │       panes:
  - window_name: db                                                   │         - shell:
    layout: main-vertical                                             │           - sleep 4
    panes:                                                            │           - pgcli -h localhost -U acme acme
      - focus: true                                                   │           - SET search_path = public;
        shell_command:                                                │           - \dn; \dt public.*
        - sleep 4                                                     │         - shell:
        - pgcli -h localhost -U acme acme                             │           - cd ../api
        - SET search_path = public;                                   │           - docker-compose up db redis
        - \dn; \dt public.*                                           │     - name: api
      - shell_command:                                                │       panes:
        - cd ../api                                                   │       - shell:
        - docker-compose up db redis                                  │         - cd ../api
  - window_name: api                                                  │         - sleep 4
    panes:                                                            │         - find . -name '*py' | entr -r docker-compose up api
    - focus: true                                                     │  
      shell_command:                                                  │  
      - cd ../api                                                     │  
      - sleep 4                                                       │  
      - find . -name '*py' | entr -r docker-compose up api            │  
                                                                      │  

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[rightaway]

@rafi I agree with all of this. As you're a contributor can you incorporate these changes?

[tony]

I like a lot of these suggestions

2.0 will give a fresh look at the config format

libtmux will have similar refinements and cleanup at the API level.

[tony]

Change `suppress_history default to false (Argument: More common to re-use a command after CTRL+C for example, suppress should be the exception)

I agree with this. I often try to reach for the last few commands in the pane.

However, the reason suppress_history is used is the history file itself doesn't get flooded with repeated commands over startups.

If we want a cross platform way to satisfy all worlds i'm all ears

[rightaway]

However, the reason suppress_history is used is the history file itself doesn't get flooded with repeated commands over startups.

@tony People who care about how clean the history file is set their shell settings so that their history files don't have duplicates. It's easy to do in most shells. And other people probably don't even care or know what a history file is.

[tony]

People who care about how clean the history file is set their shell settings so that their history files don't have duplicates.

What would be nice to have instructions for hiding duplicate history on https://tmuxp.git-pull.com

Then I will entertain this behavior as a default. Users need warning before a default like this changes

https://github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp/discussions/760 2.0 is where i'm happy to put in any kind of default behavioral change