Make new windows/tabs open at the path of the active tab

[andreasf]

It would be nice if Terminal would spawn new shells in such a way that they do not open with the default home folder ~> but with the current directory of the active shell.

That would match GNOME behavior.

Currently:

Shell 1:

Welcome to the Haiku shell.

~> cd /Source/haiku
/Source/haiku> 

Alt+t

Shell 2:

Welcome to the Haiku shell.

~> cd /Source/haiku/generated-gcc4
/Source/haiku/generated-gcc4> 

Requested:

Shell 1:

Welcome to the Haiku shell.

~> cd /Source/haiku
/Source/haiku> 

Alt+t

Shell 2:

Welcome to the Haiku shell.

/Source/haiku> cd generated-gcc4
/Source/haiku/generated-gcc4> 

[andreasf]

Corrected myself: Mac OS X v10.5 behavior matches that of Haiku currently.

[bonefish]

Would be nice indeed. Konsole has that feature, too and I find that it is mostly what one wants when opening a new tab. The Terminal side should be easy enough to implement. The only problem is that we don't have a way to get the current working directory of another team yet. Adding a respective syscall wouldn't be hard either, but before we start adding individual syscalls for stuff like this, we should consider a more generic API for getting information about a team. A procfs would be an option, but that comes with the overhead of a file system and also requires parsing the information read. Maybe something like:

status_t get_extended_team_info(team_id teamID, uint32 flags, BMessage& info)

[bonefish]

Implemented in hrev39457 and hrev39458.