Add Display Titles For Each Pane In A Window as a tmux TIL

README.md

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 - [Create A Named tmux Session](tmux/create-a-named-tmux-session.md)
 - [Create A New Session In A New Server](tmux/create-a-new-session-in-a-new-server.md)
 - [Cycle Through Layouts](tmux/cycle-through-layouts.md)
+- [Display Titles For Each Pane In A Window](tmux/display-titles-for-each-pane-in-a-window.md)
 - [Enabling Vi Mode](tmux/enabling-vi-mode.md)
 - [Get Mouse Copy/Paste Working In Kitty](tmux/get-mouse-copy-paste-working-in-kitty.md)
 - [Hiding The Status Bar](tmux/hiding-the-status-bar.md)

tmux/display-titles-for-each-pane-in-a-window.md

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+# Display Titles For Each Pane In A Window
+
+One of the main reasons I use `tmux` is to be able to organize the various
+development servers and tools I have to run for a given project. They can be
+spread across several windows in the same session. Or for ease of access, they
+can all be split across panes in a single window.
+
+In that latter case, I recently ran into an issue where the server output in
+each pane looked similar enough that I couldn't tell which was which. What I
+need is titles for each pane that tell me what is running and where.
+
+`tmux` has pretty solid support for just this out-of-the-box with
+`pane-border-status`.
+
+Hit `<prefix>:` to issue the following command to `tmux`:
+
+```
+:set pane-border-status top
+```
+
+Or issue the command from one of your pane's terminal prompts:
+
+```
+$ tmxu set pane-border-status top
+```
+
+Either way, it will replace the top border line with text telling you the pane
+number, the directory, and the last run command in that pane. This is just the
+context I need to differentiate each.
+
+This will only set it for the current window.
+
+If you want to turn it back off:
+
+```
+:set pane-border-status off
+```
+
+[source](https://stackoverflow.com/a/37602055/535590)