From 22d1b9412e52c98cbdf52a3a5185a416c6d26c64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:42:55 +0000
Subject: Using -l to specify a login shell is non-POSIX and causes problems
 with shells that do not support it. Instead, set an empty default-command to
 invoke $SHELL with - prefixed to argv[0], and make this the default setting.

---
 tmux.1 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tmux.1')

diff --git a/tmux.1 b/tmux.1
index 57ff51dd..78fd51b0 100644
--- a/tmux.1
+++ b/tmux.1
@@ -1044,8 +1044,12 @@ maintain this maximum length.
 Set the command used for new windows (if not specified when the window is
 created) to
 .Ar command .
-The default is
-.Dq exec $SHELL -l .
+The default is an empty string, which instructs
+.Nm
+to create a login shell using the
+.Ev SHELL
+environment variable or, if it is unset, the user's shell returned by
+.Xr getpwuid 3 .
 .It Ic default-path Ar path
 Set the default working directory for processes created from keys, or
 interactively from the prompt.
-- 
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