tmux-select-or-new-window

#!/usr/bin/env bash
name="$1"
shift
args="$*"
tmux-select-window-globally "$name"  || tmux -2 new-window -n "$name" "$args"
# exit status 1 if window does not exist afterwards
sleep 0.1
tmux select-window -t "$name"

tmux-select-window-globally

#!/usr/bin/env bash
name="$1"
switched="false"
current_session=$(tmux display-message -p "#{session_name}")
tmux list-panes -a -F 'session_name="#{session_name}" window_index="#{window_index}" pane_index="#{pane_index}" window_name="#{window_name}" 'pane_title="'#{pane_title}'" | sort | {
    while read line
    do
        eval $line
        if [ "$window_name" = "$name" ]
        then
            if [ "$session_name" != "$current_session" ]
            then
                tmux -2 switch-client -t $session_name
            fi
            tmux -2 select-window -t $session_name:$window_name
            tmux select-pane -t $session_name:$window_index.${pane_index}
            switched="true"
            break
        fi
    done
    if [ "$switched" = "false" ]
    then
        exit 1
    else
        exit 0
    fi
}

tmux.conf lines

bind-key m run-shell "tmux-select-or-new-window mutt mutt ; tmux-move-or-swap-window -t 2"
bind-key M-c run-shell "tmux-select-or-new-window mc mc -x" # M-c, haha, get it? ;)
bind-key e run-shell "tmux-select-or-new-window emacs 'emacsclient -t || emacs'"
bind-key C-e run-shell "tmux-select-or-new-window emacs 'emacsclient -t || emacs'"
bind-key t run-shell "tmux-select-or-new-window htop htop"