Or just add this to your bashrc: bind -x '"\e\r": "setsid urxvt"'
This creates a new shortcut for bash: Alt-Return and spawns a new terminal in your current directory. On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:26:04 +0200 Martin Pohlack <[email protected]> wrote: > We discussed a non-portable way to do that in 2012 here: > > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2012q3/001607.html > > I am using something something similar in a custom selection-popup > plugin to open files that are highlighted. It breaks down as soon as > you have nested sessions of any forms (nested shells, midnight > commander etc.) with different CWDs, but is sensibly useful otherwise. > > HTH, > Martin > > On 16.09.2017 20:25, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 04:38:14PM +0000, Adesh Kumar > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> can press Ctrl+Shift+N to open a new terminal. The new window > >> opened this way inherits its current working directory from the > >> parent window, which is highly useful. > > > > First of all, this simply cannot No…Dec 16Jan 17Feb 17Mar 17Apr 17May 17Jun 17Jul 17Aug 17Sep 17Oct 17Nov 17$50$75$100$125$150 03/16/2017US:RHT$84.1000 Advanced Charting $ % Vol be done without support from the > > program running inside the terminal - while some operating systems > > allow you to query the current working directory of other > > processes, this cannot be done portably, and, whats more, there can > > be multiple programs running inside a terminal all with their own > > cwd. > > > > For example, try this in gnome terminal: > > > > $ cd /tmp > > $ bash > > $ cd / > > [ctrl-shift-n] > > > > The new terminal will not open with the CWD set to /, but probably > > to /tmp. > > > > This is the reason why urxvt does not support this out of the box - > > opening a new terminal would be as good as simply starting it > > again, so this option isn't really needed. > > > > Now, what gnome-terminal and others do on e.g. Linux could be done > > with a linux-specific extension that, of course, would have to be > > written first (it could also be done in other ways, but doing an > > extension would probably be most painless). > > > > So yes, there is no such functionality in urxvt out of the box, and > > none planned, as urxvt tries to be portable. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rxvt-unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
