hi Wez, looking really forward to try this feature. Another "split-feature" that comes to my mind:
* "Fullscreen" current active pane

Can you describe the effect that "fullscreen" would have?
Tmux has main-horizontal and main-vertical layouts; is that the effect you want?
These images illustrate the layout, but I'd probably want to specify some parameters for the layout, such as eg: minimum number of rows for the main pane to ensure that it has a usable size.

An important constraint of panes is that they are implemented by splitting things into two parts, so every pane must fit within the space available in its parent. If the fullscreen mode has the effect of hiding everything other than the active pane and making the pane fit the full size of the tab, then that makes for some UI complications because the other panes are no longer present, and their positioning requires a whole other set of calculations. Such a fullscreen pane looks/sounds very much like the existing tab primitive, so I'm leaning towards that as the recommended solution. I can see there being potential for moving panes from one containing tab to another, so another way to envision the "fullscreen" mode is to pop a pane into its own tab, then move it back when you're done. (Hand-waving over how tracking that movement and restoring it works for the moment).

Not having predefined layouts is OK, I guess.

I'm not saying that I won't build them, it's just that there are lots of possibilities and I want to prioritize building the more valuable features first, so I'm looking for feedback on which of these things are important!

If split-pane is implemented as some subcommand, one could startup wezterm with some predefined panes. I like the way windows terminal does it. (thats the only reason I am currently using it, besides wezterm) (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/panes, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-line-arguments)

Thanks; those are helpful links!

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add support for vertical and horizontal splits #157

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