mina86/urxvt-tabbedex

Open new tab in same directory

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rudevdr commented

I have URxvt.keysym.Control-t: tabbedex:new_tab in my .Xdefaults so whenever I press Ctrl-t a new tab is opened. But I also want to open new tab and cd into the directory where the button was pressed.

For eg. If I am in a tab with dir /home/user/music/ and if I press Ctrl-Shift-t then a new tab should be opened and current directory is changed to /home/user/music/.

I see that issue #13 asks for same feature was closed 4 months ago with some information about pgid-cd.pl file but I am unable to implement it. Any help will be appreciated, thanks!

mina86 commented

pgid-cd.pl has documentation in it’s source which includes examples of use:

URxvt.tabbedex.tab-arguments: \
    -e %~/.urxvt/tabbedex-pgid-cd %p %E

This would make it work for any way you open a tab. If you want this effect only when some key-bindings are used, you need an argument passed to the new_tab action, e.g.:

URxvt.keysym.Control-t: \
    tabbedex:new_tab: -e %~/.urxvt/tabbedex-pgid-cd %p %E
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rudevdr commented

Sorry, I couldn't achieve this. I have added :

URxvt.keysym.Control-t: \
	tabbedex:new_tab: -e %~/.urxvt/tabbedex-pgid-cd %p %E

to my .Xdefault file and copied pgid-cd.pl file as ~/.urxvt/tabbedex-pgid-cd. I don't know if I am supposed to do that.

mina86 commented

That should work. Is a new tab being created at all? Also, I’m assuming you’ve made the file executable (chmod 755 ~/.urxvt/tabbedex-pgid-cd). Could you start the terminal from another terminal to see any error messages printed?

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rudevdr commented

Ah, of course. I didn't make the script executable. Thanks a lot for your help.