Feature Request: Get current session

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#252 opened on Jan 1, 2020 0 comments 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: api, cli

Research direction

Start with the suggested server.list_sessions()[0] approach in the quickstart documentation and inspect how libtmux represents sessions. Compare that listing with the current session reported by tmux when running inside a tmux client. Done means the Python API reliably returns the session containing the current command-line client rather than the first listed session.

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Description

When using tmux on the command-line, I can get the current session by running tmux ls.

It would be useful if libtmux could do the same.

The suggested approach of using server.list_sessions()[0] does not work. It returns whichever session is at the top of tmux's listing, not necessarily the current one.

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