Windows terminal, split panes but the new pane is on the same directory as the previous?

Question

Might be a little bit of a silly question. The problem is simple, I tend to have two panes, one where I write code, and the other to compile it. I do that with the windows terminal (cmd + vim + Mingw), but something is bothering me. I can split the panes perfectly but after that I have to change directory to the project directory on both panes.. it is really a minor annoyance, but would it be possible for, when I split panes, the second pane going going directly to the directory of the first?

if it's silly, I'm really sorry

Conquest

For future reference, here is the MS link explaining this. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/… – Valina

Answer 1

I know you probably have found a way by this time but the shortcut to open a new pane in the same directory for Windows terminal is Shift+Alt+D.

You can view the image here: pane-split

Retarded

Well I don't use windows anymore, but that does sound like what I needed at the time, thank you very much :) Hope it might be useful for someone in the future – Conquest

Answer 2

If you're still interested in this, it looks like it will be added to Windows Terminal soon.

In the interim, I use tmux to workaround this issue.

Cygnus

Thanks for linking that thread and suggesting tmux. I do have a somewhat speculative question though: are you sure that it will be? They removed the "In-PR" tag ("in production", I assume), so it could be 'done', but the issue hasn't been closed, and they removed that tag a month ago. – Gag

I think it's a feature that will always be of interest to me! I have since moved to emacs tho.. so I am not using the same set up anymore, but I am thankful that you shared that here :) – Conquest

Answer 3

As per MS docs, you need to add $e]9;9;$P$e\ to your prompt. Just figure out how to change your shell's prompt and add that string to it.

Valina

Answer 4

I recommend to you use no-native terminals for that kind of tasks, like cmder, conemu. These consoles have solutions for split pane.

Greenock