Hello, I am trying to migrate from screen to tmux but I find its "current directory" behavior to be quite irritating. It actually makes tmux painful to use in my situation.
My use case: I have a bunch of per-project directories in ~/os/<project>/. When I want to work on a project, I go into ~/os/foo and start a screen session named "foo". I do this for several projects at a time so I end up having multiple screen sessions. Each session has the name of the project it refers to and its current directory is that of the project. As a result, creating new windows inside each session does the right thing of opening a new shell within the root directory of the corresponding project. Now... as you know: in tmux, the current directory for all new windows is set to the directory in which tmux was first started. Starting a new session when the tmux server is also running has the "funny" effect of correctly creating a new window in the current directory, but any new windows created for that session get the directory of the server. There is no "per-session current directory" concept. This, in my opinion, is really confusing. What's the rationale behind the current design? Could tmux (optionally?) keep the same behavior of screen (that is, to maintain a "current directory" per-session)? Thanks! PS: I see that this issue was also raised in the "Current directory in new windows/sessions" thread of 2/9/10. I also see that I could probably achieve something *similar* to what I need by doing some PS1 black voodoo (according to the FAQ)... but it's not something that I really fancy. (And I don't think that such approach is guaranteed to work in non-bash shells.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
