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user2734434
user2734434

Reputation: 2791

How to make tmux get the current working directory from ipython?

Bear with me for a sec while I explain the motivation for my question.

I've tmux set so that it shows the current working directory on the tmux status line. This works fine except in the following scenario:

While on a bash shell, I fire up ipython. On ipython, I change directory to some other place in my disk (doing 'cd some_place'). This works in the sense that I'm cd'ed to that directory, but the tmux status line still shows the original directory from which I fired ipython as the current working directory, instead of the one that I'm now.

I know that this is no bug, tmux is just showing me the original directory, all the "cd's" that I launch from ipython are transparent to that hosting shell.

My question is: Can you think of a way to make tmux get the current working directory from ipython instead of the original (hosting) shell from which it was launched?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1031

Answers (1)

languitar
languitar

Reputation: 6794

Drawing from this answer, you could manually update the status using a command like the one provided in the linked answer:

!tmux set -qg status-left "#S #P $(pwd)"

Includes the ! for ipython shell calls. This is, however, a manual action. Maybe there is a way to run it automatically.

Upvotes: 0

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