New tab should have the path of the last active tab

[Akshay Shekher]

When a new tab is opened is should open in the path of the last active tab.

eg. if the path of the current tab is ` ~/Documents `the new tab should also be opened in `~/Documents`.

currently it is opened in `~` every time

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

I think that's intentional. But I couldn't find a bug where it was changed. You don't find it really annoying that you have to cd -almost- every time you open a new tab?

[Akshay Shekher (voldyman)]

when i have cd'd to my working directory `x` and am doing something. if i open a tab i have to again cd in to `x` and continue.
on other other hand if anyone prefers the current behavior can just add cd ~ to .bashrc and its done but i can't find any other way to implement this using a trick.

[Adam Laughlin (adamlaughlin)]

I would rather this be an option than a forced feature. When I open a new tab it's generally because I want to work on something totally different than my current tab.

[Akshay Shekher (voldyman)]

@Adam

    new tab -> same goal different command(s) (same project -> editing,etc)

new window -> totally different thing.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'd be inclined to mark this "won't fix". No other app behaves this way. And in fact, when Marlin did behave this way at one point the behavior was changed because it was interpreted as a bug.

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

Well Daniel, I don't see the harm of adding an option for this. Gnome-Terminal works this way. Xfce terminal does to. Terminator too.