p

Zero-configuration tmux session launcher. Discover projects from CDPATH, attach to existing sessions, and create new ones with sensible defaults.

Features

• Session discovery - Lists existing tmux sessions alongside CDPATH directories
• Drill-down navigation - Navigate into subdirectories before creating a session
• Collision-free naming - Deterministic session names with hash suffixes when needed
• Vi-style copy mode - v to select, y to yank (pre-configured)
• Git branch in status bar - Shows current branch, updates every 5 seconds
• Zero config - Runs tmux with -f /dev/null, injects only essential defaults

Installation

go install github.com/wilmoore/p@latest

Requires Go 1.22+ and tmux.

Usage

Set CDPATH to your project directories and run p:

export CDPATH="$HOME/projects:$HOME/work"
p

The selector shows existing sessions and discovered directories:

Sessions:
  [1] api-server
  [2] frontend

Projects:
  [3] new-project >
  [4] another-project

• Select a session to attach (or switch if already inside tmux)
• Select a directory to create a new session
• Directories with > contain subdirectories you can drill into

Drill-down

When you select a directory with subdirectories:

new-project contains subdirectories:

  [d] drill down
  [c] create session here
  [q] cancel

Navigate as deep as you want, then create a session at any level.

How It Works

1. Reads CDPATH to discover project directories
2. Lists existing tmux sessions
3. Presents an interactive selector
4. Creates sessions with deterministic names derived from the directory path
5. Injects minimal config: vi copy mode, status bar with git branch
6. Attaches (or switches) to the selected session

All tmux invocations use -f /dev/null to ignore global configuration.

License

MIT