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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: tmux and current directory
From:       Jiri B <jirib () devio ! us>
Date:       2012-09-30 20:22:29
Message-ID: 20120930202229.GA24540 () wolfman ! devio ! us
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:24:08PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2012-09-30, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> > On current/i386, tmux seems to open a new shell with the current
> > directory being the same as in the window I am opening from.
> >
> > What that means in particular is that if I run 'man whatever'
> > in a tmux window, and open a new windowd ('ctrl-b c' in my case),
> > the news shell is opened in /usr/local/man. Is that inteded?
> 
> Yes. I dislike this behaviour by default but I do find it useful
> on occasion, so I use this:
> 
> set -g default-path .
> bind C new-window -c ""
> 
> this lets me do <prefix>-c to open a new window normally (working
> directory being the same as tmux was started in) and <prefix>-C for
> the new behaviour (i.e. if I'm somewhere in a deep path and don't
> want to cd manually), which works well for me.

Thanks!

j.

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