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]>

2 files changed, 7 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);
diff --git a/src/exec.zig b/src/exec.zig
index 421bfd13..0e9fb6d7 100644
--- a/src/exec.zig
+++ b/src/exec.zig
@@ -831,6 +831,9 @@ test "an init file's ThemeSel runs as Themes and says it was renamed" {
         listed = listed or std.meta.eql(o.from, panes.Output.Origin{ .cmd = .Themes });
     };
     try std.testing.expect(listed);
+    // In the session's directory, not `/`.
+    for (p.panes) |slot| if (slot) |pane| if (pane.file) |f| if (f.output != null)
+        try std.testing.expectEqualStrings(p.sessionDir(), std.fs.path.dirname(f.path).?);
     var said = false;
     for (p.panes) |slot| if (slot) |pane| {
         said = said or std.mem.eql(u8, pane.msg[0..pane.msg_len], "ThemeSel: renamed to Themes");