Please add support for relative paths in "cwd" field

[johnw42]

It looks like the "cwd" field for a terminalItem only supports absolute paths, at least with PowerShell in Windows. If I try to use a relative path I get a message like this:

The terminal "foo" cannot find the current working directory "bar"

I think it would be helpful to treat relative paths as being relative to the project root.

I can work around the issue by putting a cd command in "commands" and setting "autoExecuteCommands" to true, but then the ability to preload a command without executing it is impaired.

[nguyenngoclongdev]

Hi @johnw42,

Thank you for your feedback. I have released version 1.1.10 to support relative paths in the "cwd" field.

Please upgrade and enjoy the new features. If you encounter any issues, please let me know.

[FabioKaelin]

Hi @nguyenngoclongdev

I noticed that relative paths still don't work. I use v1.1.10 (Linux/Ubuntu and ZSH as Terminal) and I need to always set the entire path (e.g. /home/username/code/project/backend) Does this feature still not work or am I doing something wrong/what value do I have to insert there?

[nguyenngoclongdev]

Hi @FabioKaelin

I tested on Ubuntu 22.04 (terminal-keeper v1.1.10) and it works correctly.

If you can, please share your terminal-keeper settings?

[johnw42]

I'm using v1.1.11 and I still can't get the cwd field to work. I've tried in Windows and Ubuntu running in WSL. Here's my session file:

{
  "$schema": "https://cdn.statically.io/gh/nguyenngoclongdev/cdn/main/schema/v8/terminal-keeper.json",
  "theme": "tribe",
  "active": "default",
  "activateOnStartup": false,
  "keepExistingTerminals": true,
  "sessions": {
    "default": [
      {
        "name": "test",
        "autoExecuteCommands": true,
        "cwd": "test",
        "commands": [
          "pwd"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "data",
        "autoExecuteCommands": false,
        "cwd": "data",
        "commands": [
          "pwd"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

[johnw42]

Even if you can't reproduce the problem, I think a good workaround would be to use \n to separate the commands instead of ;. That way I can put a cd command in the command list without it becoming part of the last item in the shell's command history.

[nguyenngoclongdev]

@johnw42 I tried to find the problem and found multiple solutions that can help you. Please try the following: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52397075/setting-wsl-to-cwd-in-vscode-terminal https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6995