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Get current window number for bash prompt

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Mar 15, 20268897 views
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Problem

I want to replace status bar with bash prompt displaying window number like ①. How can I get current window number in the shell? There's TMUX_PANE env variable, unfortunately no TMUX_WINDOW. The closest I got is: to flash window/pane info, then take last line of and parse it. I don't want the windo…

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Fix for: Get current window number for bash prompt

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You can use to send the output to stdout to avoid having to extract it from the output of : You could convert to the circled numbers like this (bash syntax; tested with versions 3.2.48 and 4.2.20): The first line is nice in that it is pure ASCII; if…

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