How do I open the current directory in a new tab?

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My environment

Terminal.app 2.9.4 on macOS
zsh 5.7.1

When I used bash, Terminal could open current directory in a new tab, but it have not been able to do that since I changed to zsh.

In the app setting, even though it is set as "Same Working Directory".

If I would write something on .zshrc or .zprofile, would it be able to do that?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 20:08

Click the blue text:

So you just need to add that little escape sequence to your prompt so that Terminal knows where you are. Easy!

Or, if you think that's a little cryptic, let's take a look at how bash manages to pull it off. Checking man bash reveals that when bash is invoked as an interactive login shell (this should be the default when opening a Terminal window or tab), one of the files it references is /etc/profile.

A quick peek at /etc/profile shows that it may load /etc/bashrc.

And looking inside /etc/bashrc shows that it tries to load /etc/bashrc_$TERM_PROGRAM. Quick check:

> echo $TERM_PROGRAM
Apple_Terminal

A less /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal later, and jackpot! Right up near the top:

# Tell the terminal about the current working directory at each prompt.

Followed by a function that does just that, ripe for inclusion in a (bash) prompt. I'm going to refrain from copying the function here, as I'm not entirely sure of the legality of doing so, though I will include the last line of the function, as I believe that's trivial enough to be fair use:

printf '\e]7;%s\a' "file://$HOSTNAME$url_path"

This is basically that cryptic escape sequence from the preferences window popup. The rest of the function is entirely about setting up the $url_path variable with the necessary percent_encoding. You'll need to translate that stuff to zsh or just extract it to an external bash script and call that, though firing up a bash instance every time might slow your prompt down a bit.

Thanks to you, I’ve roughly learned how that was being realised! They seem to be very well configured. I’ll try to translate it in reference to them — tsubasa, Apr 25 '19 at 23:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '19 at 09:16

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Found a solution here: https://blog.callstack.io/supercharge-your-terminal-with-zsh-8b369d689770

# Open new tabs in same directory
if [[ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "Apple_Terminal" ]]; then
  function chpwd {
    printf '\e]7;%s\a' "file://$HOSTNAME${PWD// /%20}"
  }
  chpwd
fi

Note that the only percent-encoding it does on the path is to replace spaces with "%20". This should be replaced with a more robust encoding.

answered May 02 '19 at 09:16

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Thanks to the article you found, I've realized what I wanted to do! And I’d examine your viewpoint. Thank you very much!! ‍♂️ – tsubasa May 06 '19 at 15:53

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 18:18

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Just do the following keyboard shortcut:

cmd + ctrl + o

answered Apr 23 '19 at 18:18

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I tried that way, but there is no response. I also tried `Ctrl + Cmd + N` and `Opt + Cmd + N or O` etc., but the results are the same. – tsubasa Apr 23 '19 at 18:51

How do I open the current directory in a new tab?

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