How Not to Lose Your Zsh Aliases in Tmux

I have ‘v’ aliased to use ‘mvim -v’ and this workflow has worked well for me for a few months now. Unfortunately, while using tmux, I realized that I was losing all of my .zshrc aliases.

I found this snippet after a few hours of searching:

SOURCE="${(%):-%N}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do
  DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
  SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE"
done

Just add it to you .zshrc file and your zsh aliases should now work in tmux.

I’m not sure how this works or even if this is what finally fixed my issue… but it’s working for me. :) YMMV.

Now, to figure out how to copy+past in tmux. Sigh.