Should the session list be case insensitive

[vendion]

When opening the session list <prefix> + g some of my tmux sessions are in mix case or all uppercase. I think the tmux-sessionist plugin's search should be case insensitive, maybe give a filtered output if more than one session matches the search string, or display a message that exact matching is not possible with the search string?.

[bruno-]

Wow, I'm happy that someone other than me actually uses the plugin!

1. session search should be case insensitive
   
   This is a valid request. Currently this plugin just delegates session switching to tmux's switch-client command so the implementation is very small - check it here. Changing this would require comparably much more code (and work & time). For now I'm fine accepting a pull request that implements this and helping around it.
   
   Also, I'm curious, how come you have mix/upper case session names? Don't you find lowercase session names easier to create?
2. "give a filtered output if more than one session matches the search string"
   
   This one should be easier to implement. I've opened issue with <prefix + g> when multiple sessions match, give filtered output #3 for this and will work on it when there's time. Let me know if you want to get your hands dirty and get it done faster.

[vendion]

Well I only just found out out this, and Tmux plugins in general so I figured I would give it a try.

1. Yeah I see what you mean, the output from the switch-client would have to be captured and filtered with-in the loop. The reason I have some sessions is I run one session per project, and some of the names are abbreviations (which in my mind are uppercased, comes from working with Go). For for example I have a session named "ORNL" (Oak Ridge National Labs) and one named "GDG-gigcity" (Google Developer Group Gigcity). In my mind I see that and know right off the bat they are abbreviations, sure not everyone has that mindset though.
2. I haven't don't any Tmux plugin development so I'm not sure how much I will be able to contribute but would be more than happy to help anyway I can.

[javier-lopez]

Hi,

Just wanted to comment that 1 doesn't necessarily requires a lot of more code, I was able to implement a case insensitive search by placing grep -i between list sessions and user input.

https://github.com/chilicuil/tundle-plugins/blob/master/tmux-sessionist/scripts/switch_or_loop.sh#L11

In the second regard, by modifying list_sessions.sh to accept input data you could create a loop to give feedback if more than 1 entry matches the search pattern.

https://github.com/chilicuil/tundle-plugins/blob/master/tmux-sessionist/scripts/list_sessions.sh#L9

I could work in a pull request if the approach seems ok for this plugin.

[yevhen-m]

@bruno- Maybe you'd like to consider using fzf for session switching.