Creating a project

Often, you will be doing some work in a single directory, like a Git repository. cy comes with a way to create a new group of panes for exactly this purpose. To use it, navigate to a directory and type ctrl+a n ^[?].

This creates two panes:

1. /projects/[base-name]/editor: A pane running the program specified by the $EDITOR environment variable.
2. /projects/[base-name]/shell: A pane running your default shell (or the value of $SHELL).

[base-name] is the basename (a la the Bash basename command) of the directory in which you opened the project.

For example, if you type ctrl+a n ^[?] while in a pane with the working directory /tmp/test-dir, [base-name] would be test-dir and the node tree would have the following structure:

/ (group)
├── /shells (group)
│   └── [...]
├── /projects (group)
│   └── /test-dir (group)
│       ├── /editor (pane) <- attached here
│       └── /shell (pane)
└── /logs (pane)