New Tab not opening in the Same Working Directory

[emmanuel-isaac]

I noticed that upon adding extra lines of code to the ~/.zshrc file, like aliases, new tabs stop opening in the same working directory.

[ncanceill]

Hi, and thanks for reporting.

In the software world, when you report a problem, it is common to include a simple procedure to reproduce said problem. Would you kindly do that?

You can see an example of how to do so (and maybe even a solution) in #2887.

[mcornella]

@andela-eisaac is this still happening? If so, can you post your zshrc file?

[emmanuel-isaac]

Yes it is.

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=/Users/username/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="muse"
plugins=(git)

# User configuration
PATH="/Users/username/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/Users/username/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin"

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
alias 2u="cd ~/Documents/CODEine/"

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8


export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin" # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

[mcornella]

You seem to be using OSX, can you verify that you have the latest version of oh-my-zsh?

[mcornella]

If you have the latest version, you can try commenting one by one the lines below source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh and restarting the terminal to see when it is that it works again.

[emmanuel-isaac]

@mcornella I have the latest version of oh-my-zsh installed. I commented out all lines below source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh but new tabs still do not open in my current working directory.

Here's what my ~/.zshrc file looks like now:

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=/Users/username/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="muse"
plugins=(git)

# User configuration
PATH="/Users/i_emmanuel/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/Users/username/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/username/.rvm/bin"

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
#alias 2u="cd ~/Documents/CODEine/"

#source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
#export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

[mcornella]

That's weird a little weird, since you said:

I noticed that upon adding extra lines of code to the ~/.zshrc file, like aliases, new tabs stop opening in the same working directory.

Anyway, try to have the smallest possible zshrc file:

export ZSH=/Users/username/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="muse"
plugins=(git)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

and see if it works.

If not, try to find a configuration in which tab opening works correctly: using bash, or using zsh -f which bypasses reading the .zshrc file altogether.

[mcornella]

Any updates?

[emmanuel-isaac]

I'll close this PR, format my computer and if I'm still having the same problem, I'll open another PR. Thanks @mcornella 💯