working dir of newly opened term

[Thomas Meire]

In gnome-terminal, when you open a new tab, the terminal gets the same pwd as the currently visible terminal. (So if the current one has ~/Desktop as pwd, the new one will have that too). It would be nice if terminator does this too.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Hmm, interesting suggestion. Obviously at the moment all child terminals will inherit their working directory from the parent process, which can be quite annoying if you start it somewhere unhelpful. Having said that I think there are situations where inheriting pwd from the previously spawned terminal might be undesirable too.
Perhaps the best thing to do here is to implement it and use it for a while to see how helpful/annoying it is?

[Thomas Meire (blackskad)]

Well, I think inheriting the pwd of the currently focused terminal
might be the least annoying. Imagine you're editing some code in a
certain directory and you want to compile the code from the same
directory, but without closing the editor (I know vim en emacs can do
that without closing, but I'm using nano :p). You just split the
terminal with the editor then, and the new terminal is already in the
same directory as the terminal with the editor.
This solution can be as annoying as any other solution, off course.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I agree, this is likely to please/annoy just as many people as any other mode of operation, so let's do it.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I'd like this to be implemented

[Thomas Meire (blackskad)]

Fix commited to trunk, please test :)

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Seems to work fine to me, thanks!