A list pane opened from a terminal that has not said its directory yet lands in the session's

ThemeSel (Themes) in an init file ran at a terminal whose shell had not reported its cwd, so +Themes opened as /+Themes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/Output.zig b/src/Output.zig
index b3c31be2..1461757f 100644
--- a/src/Output.zig
+++ b/src/Output.zig
@@ -669,7 +669,10 @@ pub fn openFonts(p: *Pardes, id: usize) !void {
 fn openStepped(p: *Pardes, id: usize, from: Origin, content: []u8) !void {
     errdefer p.gpa.free(content);
     const pane = p.panes[id] orelse return error.MissingPane;
-    const dir = if (pane.file) |f| (std.fs.path.dirname(f.path) orelse "/") else pane.cwdSlice();
+    const own = if (pane.file) |f| (std.fs.path.dirname(f.path) orelse "/") else pane.cwdSlice();
+    // A terminal whose shell has not said where it is yet (an init file's
+    // word at boot): the session's directory, not `/`.
+    const dir = if (own.len == 0) p.sessionDir() else own;
     const free = p.freeSlot() orelse return error.NoPaneSlots;
     _ = try open(p, free, dir, from, "", content);
     exec.placeNew(p, id, id, free, .doc);