Feature: cli actions: query panes; go-to pane by name or id; query

[fedoranvar]

Good day to you!

suggesting features for zellij action:

• query tabs:
  input: zellij action query-tabs
  output: { 'id': tabid, 'name': 'tabname', 'active': active_or_not }
• query panes:
  input: zellij action query-panes
  output: { 'id': paneid, 'name': panename, 'active': active_or_not, 'tabid': tabid, 'command': currentcommand }
• go-to pane:
  input: zellij action go-to pane --name pane_in_currentab
  output: focus named pane in current tab

usecase: make IDE by bonding zellij and Helix editor

[azarmadr]

It would be great such api to query current pane and allow other apps/scripts to use that knowledge to perform actions like, on active pane do not do X

[davxy]

Related: #2779 #2845

[mrdgo]

Another use case: I integrate zjstatus with neovim. For that, the zjstatus module needs to identify the active pane to render the appropriate status line.

[imsnif]

All of these can be done with plugins. This is the Zellij way.

I realize a lot of people are used to doing these things through the CLI - I get it and I totally empathize: this is not the Zellij way. We concentrate on plugins so that distinct pieces of logic will be cross-platform, require no installation, be aware of multiple users, be able to in the future render themselves in a text/ui agnostic way and be sandboxed to user permissions.

The CLI interface is a stop gap solution and I don't want to spend a lot of time expanding it. Please write plugins - I will do (and am doing) everything in my power to make this as easy as possible.

Thanks.