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I'm trying to use tmux inside emacs for a long time. I want to use it to attach to remote (long living) session. Attaching to sessions works fine but I have some problems in my daily workflow because find-file does not work properly inside a tmux session.

To reproduce my problem:

M-x term

pwd

if you now do find-file (C-c C-j to enter line-mode, than C-x C-f) it will start at your current location. Change your directory using cd, than redo find-file, everything should look like expected.

Now create a tmux session inside your term

tmux new -s test

pwd ;; your current location (1)

find-file should start from (1) now cd to another directory, do find-file and it will still starts at (1)

The reason for that is, that the variable default-directory is not changed, when changing the directory inside a tmux session.

Does anybody has an idea how to fix this?

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  • Just to clarify you are running tmux inside a term session of emacs not running emacs inside a tmux session?
    – stsquad
    Dec 4, 2018 at 9:49
  • Yes, I'm running tmux inside a term session of emacs.
    – zngguvnf
    Dec 4, 2018 at 10:27
  • I've had difficulties with the behavior of default-directory, too. Maybe one of my workarounds will work for you: emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/44759/… Let me know and I can type up a formal answer.
    – Lorem Ipsum
    Dec 4, 2018 at 21:05

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term handles the changing of directories by the sub-shell by parsing ANSI terminal commands. See the function term-handle-ansi-terminal-messages. I can't seem to run tmux inside my term but I suspect the solution is to ensure the PS1 for the shell is correctly emitting the ANSI escape codes when the directory is changed. Maybe tmux is squashing those itself?

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  • Thanks for your reply. What do you get for an error message when you start tmux. Can you give me a hint to check whether emitting the ANSI escape code works properly?
    – zngguvnf
    Dec 4, 2018 at 10:32
  • I don't see an error message, it just scrolls some stuff quickly beforing clearing the screen and reporting [exited]. This may be a result of running in a Termina VM on my Chromebook so it could be something about that setup although tmux runs fine in the terminal.
    – stsquad
    Dec 4, 2018 at 11:32

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