Re: find the CWD of a child process

2010-01-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Jona Joachim wrote: Hi! It happens to me all the time that I want to spawn a new xterm in the same directory that I am currently in, for example when I want to open a file with vim but keep a shell in the same directory. $ xterm +ls ? /Alexander

Re: find the CWD of a child process

2010-01-08 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net wrote: In article 20100104163847.gc1...@fuckup.hcl-club.lu, j...@hcl-club.lu ... Here's a exerpt from HandleSpawnTerminal() in xenocara/app/xterm/misc.c: /* * Determine the current working directory of the child so that we

Re: find the CWD of a child process

2010-01-07 Thread Adam Thompson
In article 20100104163847.gc1...@fuckup.hcl-club.lu, j...@hcl-club.lu says... Hi! It happens to me all the time that I want to spawn a new xterm in the same directory that I am currently in, for example when I want to open a file with vim but keep a shell in the same directory. xterm

find the CWD of a child process

2010-01-04 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! It happens to me all the time that I want to spawn a new xterm in the same directory that I am currently in, for example when I want to open a file with vim but keep a shell in the same directory. xterm actually has a nice builtin function for this: spawn-new-terminal() you can affect that