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Another option now available in Mac OS X Lion is using the built-in feature. It uses 'escape sequences' to find out the current directory. For me it works if I use these commands in my .zshrc:

precmd () {print -Pn "e]2; %~/ a"}

preexec () {print -Pn "e]2; %~/ a"}

it is also possible to use PS1 (for Bash, from this wiki):

export PS1="[e]2;u@H wae[32;1m]>[e[0m] "

where e]2; is the escape sequence to print things in the titlebar. It seems that Terminal.app is getting its information from there.

More information:

• http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/Bash-prompts.php


• http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Prompt_Magic


• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html

This is a very simple version which I used in bash and also works in zsh.
It saves the current folder in a file, after every command (Doesn't hurt too much IMO)
and opens a new terminal in the saved current folder.

add the following to .zshrc

# emulate bash PROMPT_COMMAND (only for zsh)

precmd() { eval "$PROMPT_COMMAND" }

# open new terminal in same dir

PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd > "${HOME}/.cwd"'

[[ -f "${HOME}/.cwd" ]] && cd "$(< ${HOME}/.cwd)"

gdirs seems like a way to almost do it: new tab, then gdirs to select the deep directory and voila.
My first idea was to make the directory stack shared among all tabs and do cd ~1 after the new tab, but I cannot find how to do that, as it seems each instance of zsh keeps its own. History sharing goes via a common file, so maybe that could be done here too...

This is how you do it in bash.

This shell script will tell (quiet literally, using Applescript) Terminal.app to open a new tab then switch to the current directory:

#!/bin/bash

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal"' 

-e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down' 

-e "do script with command "cd `pwd`;clear" in selected tab of the front window" 

-e 'end tell' &> /dev/null

… put the above shell script in a directory in your $PATH (i.e. /usr/local/bin) and make sure it’s executable:

$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nt

(source)

If you need to open this new tab right now, without changing your config files or installing new plugins, run this:

pwd | pbcopy

Then open a new Terminal tab manually (with ⌘T), and in the new tab:

cd "`pbpaste`"

Warning: this will overwrite the contents of the system clipboard.

An alternative, longer method that does not overwrite the clipboard:

pwd > $TMPDIR/wd

Open your new tab.

cd "$(cat $TMPDIR/wd)"

rm -f $TMPDIR/wd

Per Pieter's comment above, once the plugins=(git osx) plugins are installed, you can just type tab and it will open a new tab in your current directory.

If you want the directory to change automatically when a new tab is opened use the dirpersist plugin.

The osx plugin only does save the last directory but you have to run the command tab to open a new tab, which is not always possible (if, say, you're running something in your current tab).

Adding terminalapp to .zshrc didn't work for me so I looked for the plugin ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/terminalapp and it tells me:

# This file is intentionally empty.

#

# The terminalapp plugin is deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

# Its functionality has been folded in to the core lib/termsupport.zsh, which

# is loaded for all users. You can remove terminalapp from your $plugins list

# once all your systems are updated to the current version of Oh My Zsh.

New tabs already open in the same folder (Cmd+T).
For new windows (Cmd+N) the solution from Pieter is right:

Preferences > Profiles > Default > General > Working Directory > Reuse
previous session's directory option