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feat(ghostty): switch to the right tab by tty, then title, then cwd - #165
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Ghostty tip builds expose `tty` and `pid` on the terminal class (ghostty#11922). Measured on tip build 18371: 16 terminals shared ~/git, and the cwd-only switch sent every un-renamed session there to the first one (ttys003); by tty each lands on its own. Switching now goes through terminal-switch.ts like iTerm2 and Terminal.app — tty and title in the order the pid's provenance calls for — and keeps cwd as the last resort. openSessionInGhostty receives the activePid its caller already had. Detection's cross-reference gets the same tty → title match, as iTerm2, cmux and Terminal.app already do; a pid it does not place still takes the cwd fallback, so nothing regresses. Stable Ghostty 1.3 has no `tty`: the property is read by its raw code «class Gtty» inside `try`, so the script still compiles there and falls through to title and cwd. Ghostty's comm is the full bundle path, so its running-check uses `ps`, not `pgrep -x`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eleven statements in the README and the session-integration design doc said Ghostty has no per-tab tty and switches by title then cwd. That now holds only for stable Ghostty (1.3.1 and earlier); tip builds switch by tty. Upstream status checked rather than assumed: ghostty#11922 is merged, #11592 and #10756 are closed by it, #11354 was superseded, and no release carries it yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Issue #63 requires Ghostty detection and switching for sessions that share a working directory. The PR adds Ghostty TTY and title matching, keeps cwd as the fallback, and preserves cwd fallback when d… |
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#63requires Ghostty detection and switching for sessions that share a working directory. The PR adds Ghostty TTY and title matching, keeps cwd as the fallback, and preserves cwd fallback when detection cannot place a Ghostty PID. The switch order follows exact or guessed PID provenance. Tests cover matching order, fallback behavior, stable-dictionary syntax, and path escaping. No cmux implementation is required because this PR addresses the Ghostty scope of#63.
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Review comments at @docs/claude-session-integration-design.md:
- Line 614: Synchronize the Ghostty support matrix, cross-reference note, and
Phase 1 list with the updated same-cwd limitation: stable Ghostty still relies
on title-to-CWD matching, while per-terminal TTY support is available only in
tip builds. Remove outdated statements that TTY support is wholly pending,
without changing the limitation described in the updated entry.
- Line 343: Update the Ghostty detection entries in the session integration
design to state that TTY matching identifies the terminal but requires a
matching terminal title to identify the session; otherwise detection falls back
to CWD. Do not describe untitled same-CWD sessions as always correct on tip
builds.
Review comments at @README.md:
- Line 106: Update the Ghostty row in the table to document both switch orders:
exact PIDs use TTY → title → cwd, while guessed PIDs use title → TTY → cwd. Keep
the existing stable-version note and unrelated Ghostty guidance unchanged.
Review comments at @src/claude-session-utility.ts:
- Around line 884-887: Update the session-title matching loop around
sessionTitles to consider only session IDs in item.candidates, then resolve
overlapping title matches before assigning item.pid in activeMap so a shorter
substring title cannot claim a terminal that matches a more specific title. Keep
ghosttyMatched updates aligned with the resolved assignment.
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CodeRabbit, verified against the code. The cross-reference took the first /rename title its tab contained, from every transcript in the directory, so `Fix` could claim a tab titled `Fix backend`, and a session with no row in the list could claim one at all. That loop existed four times — iTerm2, cmux, Terminal.app, and the Ghostty copy this PR added — so it is now one function: only the queued candidates, longest matching title wins. Mutation-verified: taking the first match, or ignoring the candidate list, turns tests red. Docs: Ghostty detection still needs a title once tty has found the tab (untitled → cwd), the README states both switch orders, and the support matrix, cross-ref note and Phase 1 list stop contradicting the rest of the page. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #63.
The problem
Switching to a running Ghostty session used a session's
/renametitle, then its working directory. A session with no custom title therefore went to the first terminal in its directory — and with several sessions in one directory, that is usually the wrong one. Measured on one machine on 2026-10-22: 16 Ghostty terminals shared~/git, and every un-renamed session there switched to the same tab (ttys003).iTerm2 and Terminal.app never had this problem, because they can also match on the session process's tty — a process has exactly one controlling terminal, so tty cannot pick a sibling. Ghostty could not, because its AppleScript dictionary did not expose a per-terminal tty. Ghostty tip builds now do: ghostty-org/ghostty#11922 (merged) adds
ttyandpidto theterminalclass.What changes
Switching (
openSessionInGhostty) now goes throughsrc/terminal-switch.ts, the module iTerm2 and Terminal.app already use:① tty and title, in the order the pid's provenance calls for — an exact pid (read from Claude Code's
sessions/<pid>.json) tries tty first; a guessed pid tries title first → ② working directory, as the last resort → ③ not found: copy the resume command to the clipboard (unchanged).openSessionInGhosttynow receives theactivePidits caller already had.assemblegained an optional trailing fallback; the iTerm2 and Terminal.app scripts it produces are unchanged, and a test pins that neither gets a cwd block.Detection (
crossRefDisambiguate) gets the same tty → tab title → custom title match that iTerm2, cmux and Terminal.app already have. One deliberate difference: a Ghostty pid that the cross-reference does not place still takes the cwd fallback, as every Ghostty pid did before, so nothing regresses — above all on stable Ghostty, where there is no tty to match. Measured on the same machine: 31 of 31 Ghosttyclaudeprocesses had asessions/<pid>.json, so this path is rarely reached today; it is here so all four terminals follow one rule.Stable Ghostty
Stable Ghostty (1.3.1 and earlier; no release carries #11922 yet) has no
ttyin its dictionary, and AppleScript resolves terminology at compile time. So the property is read by its raw four-character code,«class Gtty», insidetry: the script compiles regardless, and on stable Ghostty the lookup errors, is swallowed, and title and cwd run exactly as before. Verified on tip build 18371 that«class Gtty»returns the same/dev/ttysNNNastty. Not verified on a stable 1.3 install — none was available; the two guards are the reason it should hold.Two smaller things found on the way:
commis the full bundle path, so the usualpgrep -x ghosttynever matches, andpgrep -fsaw nothing in the shell where this was measured. The running-check (needed so thattell application "Ghostty"never launches Ghostty) usesps -A -o comm=.How it was checked
focusreplaced by "report what would have been focused", so nothing moved on screen. Two sessions in the 16-terminal directory (ttys005,ttys004) each resolved to their own terminal by tty; the old cwd-only logic picksttys003for both. A pid that no longer exists falls through to cwd.terminal-switch.test.ts— Ghostty joins the shared order tests, plus cwd-last in either order, no tty block without a pid, the raw-code-inside-tryguard, path escaping, and the iTerm2/Terminal.app "no cwd block" pin. Full suite 222/222.3b65f1a). The cross-reference took the first/renametitle its tab contained, from every transcript in the directory, soFixcould claim a tab titledFix backend. That loop existed four times (iTerm2, cmux, Terminal.app, and the Ghostty copy above), so it is now one function,pickSessionByTabTitleinsrc/cross-ref-title.ts: only the queued candidates, longest matching title wins. This changes the other three terminals too, in the same direction; 4 tests, mutation-verified.tty of term, moving cwd before the keyed blocks, and emitting a tty block with no pid each turn exactly one test red.tsc --noEmitclean.yarn make, 2026-10-22): switching to same-directory sessions from the Sessions tab landed on the right Ghostty tabs.Docs
The README terminal table and eleven statements in
docs/claude-session-integration-design.md(the switch flow diagram, the TTY-reliance list, the accuracy table, the upstream tracking table) said Ghostty had no tty; they now say that holds only for stable Ghostty. Upstream statuses were checked, not assumed: #11922 merged, #11592 and #10756 closed by it, #11354 superseded, latest release v1.3.1. 1.0.94 with a CHANGELOG entry.Overlap
The open-PR scan found #119, a draft last updated 2026-06-26 that also edits
openSessionInGhostty(for its worktree launch). It will conflict here when it is next brought up to date; nothing in it depends on the switch logic this PR replaces.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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