Move pane to a new window in tmux

Question

I know that it's possible in tmux to join a window as a pane, but is it possible to move a pane to it's own window (tab)? I tried searching it up the man page but couldn't find it. I guess it is possible doing it through a shell script, but is there some other, more elegant way?

Answer 1

Relevant tmux Commands

• join-pane -s
• join-pane -t
• break-pane

Bindings

You could add the following bindings to your ~/.tmux.conf:

## Join windows: <prefix> s, <prefix> j
bind-key j command-prompt -p "join pane from:"  "join-pane -s '%%'"
bind-key s command-prompt -p "send pane to:"  "join-pane -t '%%'"

The above can move panes between existing windows.

For breaking a pane to a new window, use break-pane ^{(which can also be bound)}.

Alterative Use

All three commands can be used from the tmux's prompt like: <prefix>+: then break-pane
Or at the shell's prompt ^{(inside tmux)} with: tmux break-pane.

Answer 2

From the commands list, you can see that it's called break-pane and the command is just

bind-key !

where bind-key is defaulted to Ctrl+B

Answer 3

In the latest version of tmux, installed from homebrew on OSx - 1.9a - the default key-binding implements join-pane with a menu

bind-key          S choose-window "join-pane -v -s "%%""
bind-key          V choose-window "join-pane -h -s "%%""

Answer 4

tmux 1.8 or above:

If you are intending to go to a "fullscreen" mode, you can use:

bind-keyz

to "zoom in" (and also zoom-out after you finished your work).