On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:04:53PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > When creating a new terminal, I most frequently want it to start in the > > same working directory as the current terminal. gnome-terminal has this > > feature, and I find it highly preferable to always starting new > > terminals in my home directory. Would you consider adding an option for > > this? > > The usual way to achieve this in tmux is to create the new window using > 'tmux neww' (or 'tmux splitw') from the first shell. The tmux client will > pass its working directory to the server, and the process in the new > window/pane will be created there.
Good to know; I do find it handy that I can programmatically create new tmux windows or panes from within tmux. However, I tend to frequently create windows via keystrokes, and I'd like to get the same behavior there as well. > The working directory for windows created using keys is taken from the > 'default-path' option. I guess a special value 'inherit' could be added to > get the same behavior, but getting the current working directory of a > given process "from the outside" is non-portable (it involves /proc in > Linux). True; as far as I know gnome-terminal does get the current working directory using such a mechanism. I'd be greatly appreciative if tmux would consider doing the same; I did find default-path when I searched, and an "inherit" value would work perfectly for me. As an alternative, if tmux allowed escape sequences in default-path, and if tmux exposed the PID of the current terminal's child process as one of the escape sequences, I could manually do the "readlink /proc/$pid/cwd" myself. :) (Though I'd certainly prefer not to add one more forked command to the startup of each shell.) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
