Add Support for Naming Tabs and Displaying Tab Name/Number on Switch

[BBennettChiba]

I would like to request the following feature:

Tab Naming: Allow tabs to be given custom names, with default names based on their number (e.g., "1," "2," etc.) if no custom name is provided.
Tab Switch Display: When switching between tabs, briefly display the tab's name (or number, if unnamed) in the center of the screen for half a second. This visual feedback would make it easier to confirm the current tab during fast tab navigation.
This functionality would greatly improve the usability and organization of tabs, especially in workflows involving multiple tabs with distinct purposes.

Is this feature already supported? If not, could it be considered for future development? Thank you for your attention to this request!

[haphamdev]

Looking for this as well. goto_tab only support numeric index now. It would be really nice to be able to funzzy find the tab by name.

Context: I usually work with different repositories simultaneously, each on on tab, switching back-and-force between repos by name is critical for me.

[haphamdev]

Wezterm and Tmux support this really smoothly.

[EngineersBox]

Adding to this, It might be handy to support a dotfile in a directory such as .tabconf which can specify the name of the tab programmatically, and determine if it should apply to all child directories if another .tabconf doesn't exist in the child path. I Added a similar thing to my kitty install so that I could name each project without needing to manually alter the tab name each time.

This may well be something that should be supported via some kind of extension via the up and coming library for the terminal, but I think it's worth noting as part of this discussion.

[goproslowyo]

Tab Switch Display

macOS has a native tab overview mode cmd+shift+\ and then you can search the titles just by typing.
On Linux libadwaita (iirc) gives us a tab overview toggle. You need to bind toggle_tab_overview to any combo you'd like and then you have built-in search based on tab title as well.

No tab naming features here, that is to say. YMMV but hope this helps everyone's use cases a little bit.

[zhephree]

I usually have different environments open in each tab (local, dev, staging, prod) and naming them and/or color-coding the tabs would be a huge help to differentiate between environments

[0xrusowsky]

fyi there is already some wip on #2509

[tkolleh]

Is there a way to specify the directory and command with these changes? e.g. nvim ~/.config/