Re: Launching commands in a window

2010-12-15 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
> Someone suggested treating the rest of the command line as one argument > if -- is encountered, I'd be happy with that. Why require "--"? Looking at the man page: new-window [-adk] [-n window-name] [-t target-window] [shell-command] ...why is it necessary to terminate the arguments with "--

Re: Launching commands in a window

2010-12-15 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
> What shell are you using? Bash. > In ksh, if I type: > >        tmux neww 'emacs /usr/s That's questionable behavior, because how would it handle filenames containing spaces? > An alternative would be to write a little shell function to translate: > > tmux_neww() { >        tmux neww "$*" > }

Launching commands in a window

2010-12-15 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
After many (many) years using screen, I've recently started working with tmux. While for the most part I really like the design, I've run into a problem with the way the new-window command works. As I understand it, the way to run a command in a new window is this: tmux new-window 'command arg