Extension to open new terminal with same working directory

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, David House wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like M-S-RET to open a new terminal with the same working 
> directory as the old buffer. Has anyone written an extension to do 
> this, or is this possible in vanilla urxvt?

This should probably be done in your shell (which is the part of the 
chain that is in the working directory).  E.g. for Zsh (overly-verbose 
example -- and not sure how to get the '-S-' portion):

function open-urxvt-here () { urxvt &! }
zle -N open-urxvt-here
bindkey '\e^J' open-urxvt-here

Possibly better, you can do this via ~/.Xdefaults, but it still operates 
via your shell:

URxvt.keysym.M-S-Return: \ urxvt\ &!\012

The leading space ('\ ') keeps it out of history.
The '\012' specifies the trailing 'Return'.

Still Zsh-specific (the '&!' means to disown the job immediately), but 
probably Bashable by chopping off the '!'.

-- 
Best,
Ben