I just upgraded to the 1.9 development version, and found out that I can quote
the variable(s) like this:
set-option -g status-left "#(powerline.sh left '#S:#I.#P')"
Works perfectly... thanks!
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 23:00:02 +0000
From: Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Use special variables in shell-command?
What tmux version are you using?
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:46:36AM -0800, Charles Gamiz wrote:
> Hello. I'm wondering if there's any way to use a special variable in a shell
> command, such as:
>
> set-option -g status-left "#(powerline.sh left #S)"
>
> The specific problem I'm trying to solve involves the Powerline module ... if
> I have multiple sessions up, they all show the same 'session name' on the
> statusbar. The session name comes from a call to 'tmux display-message -p
> "#S"', and it will return only the ID from the session in the foreground, or
> the session most recently selected.
>
> I'm trying to hack the Powerline script to display the correct session-name
> for each session, regardless of whether it's in the foreground or background.
> Passing #S to the powerline script would be an easy way of accomplishing
> that, but it doesn't seem to be possible. I'd be grateful for any other ideas.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Charles
>
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