Feature/gnome terminal

[ksvirsky]

Hi Michael. Recreated the same pull request to be merged. I just need the changes urgently and created separate package. Will use ttab with pleasure once you could review and merge this pull request. Thank you.

[mklement0]

Thanks again, @ksvirsky.

I've merged the PR into the master branch, but I'm not ready to package it and publish it to the npm registry / Homebrew.

I will let you know once I've done so.

The challenges are:

• the -g / -G options:

  • I don't think -g can be implemented at all (would require a way to determine and reactivate the previously active application)
  • -G works by omitting --active with (implied) --tab, but with --window there's no way to prevent the new window from receiving the focus.

• implementing the default logic of keeping the new tab open after executing a given command, based on whatever shell the specified profile is configured to use is not really an option; re-executing $SHELL after execution of the command is an approximation of the desired behavior, but not quite the same - both because context from the original shell may be lost, and because $SHELL may not be the shell the target profile is configured to use.

[ksvirsky]

Hi Michael. Glad to hear that. I agree these items have to be resolved first. Thanks.

[mklement0]

I finally got around to completing this - v0.7.0 has been released; thanks again.

See the manual for details. There are limitations around passing commands to run in the new tab, unfortunately, notably defaulting to $SHELL even if the specified profile (-s) may be configured to run a different shell.

The new tab is kept open by default even if you specify a command, as on macOS. To automatically close a tab after command execution, use exec before a single command or end a multi-command command string with exit.