[Feature request] Named Panes

Foreword

I'm a fairly recent tmux user and I really love it. IDK why I waited so long to try it. It's gonna simplify my life so much so first of all: THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

Feature description

I know setting pane-titles have been a subject in the past and is pretty much covered.
It works like a charm for me and what it allows and I'm very grateful for it.

But in the context of scripting, it really is a shame not to have the option to address panes by name.

It would be really great to be able to do:

tmux send-keys -t <session-name>:<window-name>.<pane-name> 'echo AWESOME' Enter

Instead of:

tmux send-keys -t <session-name>:<window-name>.<pane-index> 'echo hard to keep track of in relatively long scripts' Enter

or

tmux send-keys -t <session-name>:<window-name>.<pane-ID> 'echo flat-out confusing when some panes have been opened and closed' Enter

I have no idea how hard this could be to implement but I really know how valuable it could be when scripting.

Required information

(I'm putting this in a collapsible section since I'm not sure those are relevant in the case of a feature request)

• tmux version:
  • tmux 3.4
• Platform:
  • Linux x86_64
• Terminal in use:
  • Terminator 2.1.3
• $TERM inside tmux:
  • tmux-256color
• $TERM outside tmux:
  • xterm-256color
• Logs from tmux (tmux kill-server; tmux -vv new):
  • [server exited]