Tmux: How to configure tmux to display the current working directory of a pane on the status bar?

Question

I am new to tmux and I am trying to edit my tmux.conf file to have the left side of the status bar reflect:

[SessionName] [CurrentPane] [CurrentWorkingDirectory]

Answer 1

There is a variable for that, which doesn't seem to be in the manpage but is mentioned in the development version. For me, it works in the 1.8 release of tmux.

set -g status-left "#{pane_current_path}"

Note that it also works when you put it in the window-status. Each window status will mention respective working directories.

setw -g window-status-format "#{pane_current_path}".