shanselman / shanselman/splitpanefix
Current working directory not preserved if Ctrl+Shift+D used to create new tab from tab with a TUI running
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Since May 17, 2026.
- #7 by @copilot-swe-agent — closed without merging
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It's probable that this was not expected to work, and it's possible that it will be difficult to make it work.
In a tab with cwd C:\src\unify I had a TUI (specifically gitui) running when I used Ctrl+Shift+D to open a new tab. It opened, but its cwd remained as ~.
I closed the TUI in the first tab and repeated Ctrl+Shift+D. This time, the new tab was created, and its cwd was set to match that of the first tab as expected.
When gitui runs it sets the tab title to "gitui (\?\C:\src\unify)" if that is at all significant.
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