Why is possible create a new session through the "status line" and not through a pane?

[manueljordan]

Hello tmux team

It is mostly a kind of question about the following experience

If tmux (3.4) is running consider the two following scenarios

One

If within any pane is executed the following command:

• tmux new -s chaski

appears the following message:

sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force

And the session is not created - confirmed with ^b + s

Two

If is executed ^b + : (it "opens" the status line) and if is executed the new -s chaski command the session is created

Question

• Why is possible create a new session through the status line and not through a pane?

Why this difference?. It is confuse because both the pane and status line are running tmux itself. right?

Note I know the most common approach to create a new session is with the tmux new -s chaski command being it executed out of tmux (normal terminal/shell).

Thanks for your understanding

[nicm]

You are not just creating a session but trying to attach it. Use -d.

[manueljordan]

Correct, it did do the trick

Therefore the following command works:

• tmux new -d -s omicron

BTW The order of parameters is important, for example the following version is incorrect

tmux new -s -d omicron
sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force

Thanks for the support

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