XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by dharmab on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:37PM (#25735055)

I switched to kitty because it supports a killer feature I became accustomed to in iTerm- a keybind for "Open a new terminal in the same directory as the current terminal."

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by padthai on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:42PM (#25738690)

This is something that I never learnt how to do with Xterm, I put the keybinding in Bash:

bind -x '"\C-T": _terminal_here'

I would love to know how to execute a command from Xterm directly, I am sure that it is possible.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by aduros on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:42PM (#25741579)

Try this:

    XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\
        Ctrl <Key>T: spawn-new-terminal()

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by dharmab on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:31PM (#25742305)

That opens the new terminal in the home directory, right? My keybind opens it in whatever directory I’m already in which I find handy in deeply nested projects.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by aduros on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:47AM (#25742823)

It opens in the current directory, not just home.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by dharmab on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:25PM (#25753004)

Sweet!

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by padthai on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:41AM (#25749315)

Works like a charm, thank you.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by markstos on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:48PM (#25735304)

alacritty offers that as well.

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