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list_windows: We may be filtering out `window_name: ''` and `''` values

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Issue type
Bug
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

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Start at the list_windows implementation and inspect its filtering logic, then review the test referenced in #444. Confirm how an empty window_name and other empty-string values are handled, and ensure existing empty values are retained.

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Description

#444 it seems the test will always pass, even before the change that, when verified by hand, permits window_name: '' to work (or else it'd default to zsh or whatever the shell name was for the window)

See if our filtering is negating '' as a falsey value. We want to keep those, if they exist.

Fulll context: https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux/pull/444#discussion_r980591231

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