sublime text not opening from command line tmux

Question

I have Sublime Text as an alias so I can call it from the terminal on MacOS.

Since I started using tmux, Running the following command opens sublime but not on the current directory. It's like aliases are not accepting arguments on tmux.

subl .

Without tmux this command works fine.

Any known issue with tmux alias arguments?

Answer 1

This answer from SuperUser did the trick for me.

brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

And then append the following to your ~/.tmux.conf

set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh"

Lastly, source the config file for tmux

tmux source ~/.tmux.conf

I use subl . all the time! It's a shame you've trained yourself not to use this helpful command.

Answer 2

I ran into this same issue after reinstalling Homebrew. Not sure why it happened but i was able to resolve it but just add the following line to the end of my .bash_profile .

alias subl='open -a "/Applications/Sublime Text.app"'

Then closing and reopening the terminal session or by running source ~/.bash_profile to reload the profile.