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"open" command doesn't work properly inside tmux

I am trying to use the open command to open a link in Chrome from my terminal.

It works fine in plain Terminal.app or iTerm2, but doesn't work properly from tmux. What happens is: it opens a new instance of Chrome (rather than opening a new tab) and doesn't actually go to the URL.

Is there any fix for this? The reason I need this functionality is for running Mutt with urlview to open the links from emails.

Thanks.

Solution

  • This sounds like a problem that could be solved by installing reattach-to-user-namespace.

    If you don't wanna get deep into manually solving this problem you can use one of the tmux plugins: