ghostel-project creates a new shell on each invocation

[nhojb]

The ghostel-project docs state:

If a buffer already exists for this project, switch to it. Otherwise create a new Ghostel buffer.

However, when I run ghostel-project in a project I get a new shell buffer every time. It never switches to the current shell. So you end up with "ghostel ", "ghostel <2>" etc, etc

GNU Emacs 30.2.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin25.3.0, NS appkit-2685.40 Version 26.3.1 (a) (Build 25D771280a)) of 2026-03-23
ghostel 0.17.0

[dakra]

Does it work with only ghostel and only ghostel-project is always creating new buffers?

How are the buffers exactly called?
When the buffer gets renamed (e.g. from claude-code) then it'll create a new buffer but maybe that's a feature and not a bug :D
(probably a bug that I should fix too but doesn't sound like the problem you're having)

[nhojb]

Yeah, it's ghostel-project.

After running it twice I end up with two buffers named: *ghostel <project-name>*, *ghostel <project-name>*<2>

I'll take a look and create a PR 😄

[nhojb]

PR #169

[dakra]

Thanks. I created yesterday already a fix for the buffer renaming bug but wanted to make sure that this is the problem you're really having.

Should be fixed on main.
Thanks for the bug report (and PR).

Please report anything that's not working as expected.

[nhojb]

Thanks for the update. Glad it got fixed.