Re: tmux: How to create a new window with the same path (from the current pane)

On 2019-11-26 16:27, Anders Damsgaard wrote:
> * Atanas Vladimirov <vlado@bsdbg.net> [2019-11-26 14:27:33 +0200]:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The following works on Linux:
>>
>> ```
>> bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
>>
>> ```
>>
>> but the `pane_current_path` variable does not exists on OpenBSD.
>> Does anyone now how can I achieve the same behavior on OpenBSD?
>
> Hi Atanas,
>
> I recently asked Nicolas Marriott the same question on Freenode/#tmux.
> The
> pane_current_path functionality is disabled on OpenBSD because of
> security reasons.
>
> For that reason I added the following function to my ~/.profile.
> However,
> it does not enable splitting without sending current processes to
> background:
>
> tsplit() {
> if [ -z "$TMUX" ]; then
> echo "error: not in tmux session" >&2
> return 1
> fi
> if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
> if [ "$1" = "v" ]; then
> tmux split-pane -v -c "$PWD"
> elif [ "$1" = "h" ]; then
> tmux split-pane -h -c "$PWD"
> elif [ "$1" = "w" ]; then
> tmux new-window -c "$PWD"
> else
> echo "error: split direction not understood" >&2
> return 2
> fi
> else
> tmux split-pane -h -c $PWD
> fi
> }
>
> Best, Anders

Hi Anders,

Thanks for your reply.
So, if I understand your example right, I need to do something like
`bind c new-window -c "$PWD"` in my .tmux.conf.
The problem is that it works partially - if I'm in
`/home/<myhome>/<some_directory>` and start tmux there,
the $PWD is correct, but when I change the directory and create a new
window with `C-b c` it moves me to the initial $PWD (when the tmux was
started)
instead of the current directory.

Does anyone know how to make it work as I desire, or it's not possible?
Thanks in advance,
Atanas