tmux tabs with name of file open in vim

Question

I\'m new to tmux and am trying to figure out how to edit the configuration so that windows with vim open show up in the taskbar not as #:vim but as whatever the

Answer 1

Great answers here, but I still couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it, which is: 1) Change the TMUX window name on opening vim 2) On quit. return it to the previous name when finished I achieved it with the following 3 vimrc lines:

autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost,BufNewFile * call system("tmux rename-window " . expand("%:t"))
let tmuxtitle = system("tmux display-message -p '#W'")
autocmd VimLeave * call system("tmux rename-window " . shellescape(tmuxtitle))