Freeze overwrite and persistence of original file settings

[vlappa]

I was attempting to create a default tmuxp.json file when it doesn't exists on a specific location. Then make tmuxp freeze overwrite that file. What I didn't realize was that all the default values, initially set, are now gone of course, it's a complete new file.

For my use case it would be nice if the settings like environment and before_script, which are not available in the current freezed session would persist.

There are probably better ways to do this, like sending tmux keys etc.

You're welcome to think with me...

[vlappa]

A solution for the environment is to set the environment first and then load with the append option, where the sessionName is the same as configured in the yaml/json file. You can also start with a dedicated server socket

tmux -L customSocketName new -e FOO=bar -s sessionName tmuxp load -L customSocketName --append file.tmuxp.json

[vlappa]

This doesn't work when the session is created by tmux first it seems.

I would like to create a detached session with tmux and then attach and append to that session with a tmuxp configuration / json file.

tmux -L customSocketName new -e FOO=bar -s sessionName

tmuxp load -L customSocketName --append file.tmuxp.json

    raise exc.TmuxSessionExists(
libtmux.exc.TmuxSessionExists: Session named sessionName exists