Holding session title after spliting pane in iterm2

Question

I'd like to set a name for a tab, but in iterm2 there's only a session title.

It works fine when I have one split pane in a tab,

but the session title will change after split the tab to two panes.

Is there a way to write a script to hold the session title after spliting?

Answer 1

I solved it by following applescript:

tell application "iTerm"
    tell current session of current window
        set nameOfSession to {get name} as text
        set newSession to {split horizontally with same profile}
        select newSession
        set name to nameOfSession
    end tell
end tell

Put it to ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm/Scripts, restart iterm2 then you can see the script in Script Menu (more about scripts).

And may be you want to map a shortcut to execute the script in System Keyboard Shortcut settings.