[haiku-development] Re: New Terminal windows open in current directory, bug or feature?

  • From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 14:55:33 -0800

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:23:22PM -0500, John Scipione wrote:
> When you open a new terminal window (or tab) the new window set to the
> same directory as the previous Terminal window/tab.
> 
> This behavior is different from every OS with a Terminal I know,
> including BeOS 5 (I checked). What normally happens is that new
> Terminal windows open in some default location, usually your home
> directory.
> 
Everyone else seems to have weighed in on this already, but I'd
like to add that on *my* BeOS R5 machine it has always worked just
the way it does in Haiku (almost).

If you open a Terminal with Alt-Opt-T, it opens in the selected folder,
and if you use Alt-N or the Menu Item -- without doing a 'cd' -- the new
one opens in the same folder as the first.  BeOs and Haiku differ
slightly if you do change the current directory with a cd.  BeOS opens
the new Terminal in the *original* folder of the first, while Haiku opens
it wherever the current directory is set.

Me, I'm all for Haiku's way... (And I got incredibly frustrated recently
when for some reason the Tracker shortcut wasn't working after an
upgrade and I had to use the App Menu to open a Terminal and then
navigate to where I actually wanted to be! (Fixed now))

        -- Pete --

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