Sessions and windows cannot share name

[johnnyggalt]

What happened?

I wanted a session to have the same name as one of its windows, but when I do so, things go awry:

[[session]]
name = "test"
startup_command = "tmux select-window -t 'test'; exit"
windows = ["test"]

[[window]]
name = "test"
startup_script = "tmux split-window -t test"

This results in:

1. An extraneous window (which I am attempting to close with the exit in my startup_command.
2. No split panes in the test window

If I change one or the other names to disambiguate then it works (notice it's case sensitive):

[[session]]
name = "Test"
startup_command = "tmux select-window -t 'test'; exit"
windows = ["test"]

[[window]]
name = "test"
startup_script = "tmux split-window -t test"

Version

2.17.1

Relevant log output

No response

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[joshmedeski]

Wouldn't the exit command close the first pane? And the second window is the renaming itself?

There more work to be done on the startup_command and startup_script behavior. Some users have reported the script not triggering because the pane's terminal hasn't initialized yet when the command is sent to the window. Could that be related?

[johnnyggalt]

@joshmedeski It's counterintuitive - I certainly didn't figure it out first go. However, that's kind of separate to the main point of this issue, which is that like-named sessions and windows seems to really confuse sesh. I'm guessing there's some kind of shared identifier pool that isn't disambiguating sessions/windows when it should be.

tbh, the fact that an extra window is created that isn't defined in my session feels like a bug to me as well, but I wasn't sure so I've instead been working around it with the strategy I've shown here.

[joshmedeski]

I didn't write the windows feature myself, it was another contributor.

So there's a chance it's a bug. Do you mind investigating? Otherwise I can look into it in the new few weeks.