From 6cc182b1578fcc6e0863134185e17e29d0eed4be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 10:58:38 +0100
Subject: refactor(zsh): stop renaming zellij tabs from the shell
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The hand-rolled `N:dir:cmd` tab labels could never stay in sync:

- After session resurrection, tab names are restored from disk but no
  shell-visible event fires, so labels stayed stale until the user hit
  Enter to trigger precmd.
- After closing a middle tab, zellij renumbers surviving tabs but again
  emits no per-pane event, so the `N:` prefix on every tab to the right
  silently became wrong.
- Once a tab has a custom name, zellij's tab-bar plugin uses it verbatim
  — there's no way to keep the default `Tab #N` numbering while also
  injecting dir/cmd info. The only plugin that addresses this (vmaerten/
  zellij-tab-rename) requires zellij built from main.

Dropping the hooks restores zellij's built-in `Tab #N`, which is the
single label that stays correct across resurrect and renumber. The zsh
prompt already shows CWD inside the pane.
---
 dot_config/zsh/dot_zshrc | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'dot_config')

diff --git a/dot_config/zsh/dot_zshrc b/dot_config/zsh/dot_zshrc
index 94781ac..fda6853 100644
--- a/dot_config/zsh/dot_zshrc
+++ b/dot_config/zsh/dot_zshrc
@@ -151,15 +151,13 @@ if [[ "$TERM" == (xterm-ghostty|st*|screen*|xterm*|rxvt*|tmux*|putty*|konsole*|g
 	add-zsh-hook -Uz preexec xterm_title_preexec
 fi
 
-# ── Zellij tab naming (dir:cmd like tmux) ────────────────────────────────────
-if [[ -n "$ZELLIJ" ]]; then
-	_zellij_dir() { [[ "$PWD" == "$HOME" ]] && echo '~' || echo "${PWD##*/}"; }
-	_zellij_tab_idx() { echo $(( $(zellij action current-tab-info 2>/dev/null | grep -oP 'position: \K\d+') + 1 )); }
-	_zellij_tab_precmd()  { zellij action rename-tab "$(_zellij_tab_idx):$(_zellij_dir)" 2>/dev/null; }
-	_zellij_tab_preexec() { zellij action rename-tab "$(_zellij_tab_idx):$(_zellij_dir):${1%% *}" 2>/dev/null; }
-	add-zsh-hook precmd _zellij_tab_precmd
-	add-zsh-hook preexec _zellij_tab_preexec
-fi
+# ── Zellij tab naming ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Intentionally NOT renaming tabs from the shell. Zellij's built-in "Tab #N"
+# is the only label that stays correct through session resurrection and
+# auto-renumbering after a tab is closed; once a tab gets a custom name, the
+# tab-bar plugin uses that name verbatim and there is no IPC event for shells
+# to react to layout changes. The zsh prompt already shows CWD inside the
+# pane, so a duplicated label in the tab bar was pure noise.
 
 # ── Recent directories ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 autoload -Uz chpwd_recent_dirs cdr
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