Shortcut for Connecting to Last Open Session

[ShiromMakkad]

Discussed in #3689

^{Originally posted by ShiromMakkad October 22, 2024}
I'd like to create an alias to attach to the last session used on the current machine. I know you can use zellij a but if there's multiple sessions, it just prints all the sessions. I want it to connect to the top session in the list, but I don't want to type out its name. Is this possible?

I'd like a feature where there's a single command, maybe zellij a last-session or zellij last-session that can be run without knowing the name of the last session you connected to. For me, I work on many different sessions, but the next morning, I almost always want to connect to the last session I was on. I'd love to create an alias for this and just run it every time I connect over ssh.

[sstark]

In case you were connected to more than one session on logout, which one would be the last session? In case that is known, what behavior would be desired after a reboot? Would you still want to re-open the session that was last active?

I asked that myself and the more I think about it, the more I think I should just give my session a useful name and always attach by name.