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Sometimes I want to kill all windows besides the current one (or the one selected using -t).

Instead of killing each window using kill-window -t <window> how can I invert the selection, so that I kill every window except the current one (or the one selected using -t)?

I've tried kill-window -t[!1] or kill-window -t!(1) to kill all windows except window 1, but it fails.

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You can write a key binding to do this:

  • new-session -d -s foo creates a new session
  • move-window -t foo: moves the current window to the new session
  • rename-session old give this session the name old so we can kill it later
  • switch-client -t foo: switch to the new session
  • kill-window -t 1 kill the first window that was created by default
  • kill-session -t old: kills the old session (and all remaining windows)
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  • Thank you. Do you know the approaches I have tried failed? man tmux says it should support fnmatch(3), and [!1] is a glob(7) matching anything but 1 Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 18:40
  • Is there any reason you append a “:” to sessions as in -t old:? Wouldn’t -t old work just as fine? Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 18:42
  • Do you have any ideas on how to automatically rename the new session like the old one? Indeed, I need a variable holding the old name for this to work. Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 18:44
  • Just because it could match more than one window does not mean that it will operate on more than one. AFAIK the target is always for one session/window/pane. Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 18:54
  • Do you know whether it is possible to save the session name in a variable during a key binding? Commented Mar 12, 2021 at 5:48

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