Run another rxvt-unicode on the same directory

[Martin Pohlack]

Hi Romildo,

On 01.07.2012 16:29, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Suppose I have a window running rxvt-unicode. I would like to be able to
> have a new window running rxvt-unicode on the same directory of the
> current one.

With "current one", you probably mean the current *shell* running in
your terminal and not the cwd of the terminal itself?

Then you could write a simple perl plugin, using some hackery from the
selection plugin:

Track term's child (typically the shell):
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sub on_child_start {
   my ($self,$pid) = @_;

   $self->{child_pid} = $pid;  # keep for later determining our shells
                               # CWD for relative path names

   ()
}
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Make use of this:
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...
      my $ccwd = readlink("/proc/".$self->{child_pid}."/cwd");
      // start new terminal here with parameter "-cd $ccwd"
...
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> Something like C-S-n on gnome-terminal.
> 
> Is this easily achievable?

The obvious limitation is, that only the first shell level's path will
be detected.  A nested bash or a nested mc's paths will not be seen.

HTH,
Martin