Drag folder/file to '+' button to open new tab in directory #13774

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opened 2026-01-31 03:51:46 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @TomByrne on GitHub (May 11, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Would be nice if dragging and dropping a folder from explorer onto the plus button created a new shell within that directory.
If a file is dropped, then the parent folder should be used.

As a bonus it would be nice if dragging onto an existing tab set the CWD of that shell to the directory, but I believe this would require more configuration per shell-type (i.e. would need to know how to navigate to the folder, and in the case of unix-like shells how to transform the path).

Note: Currently dragging a file/folder into an existing shell (i.e. not the tab) pastes the path into that shell; I'm not suggesting that this change at all (although if the path-transformation issue mentioned above is solved then maybe it could be re-used here, as windows-format paths are fairly useless in a unix-like shell).

Originally created by @TomByrne on GitHub (May 11, 2021). # Description of the new feature/enhancement Would be nice if dragging and dropping a folder from explorer onto the plus button created a new shell within that directory. If a file is dropped, then the parent folder should be used. As a bonus it would be nice if dragging onto an existing tab set the CWD of that shell to the directory, but I believe this would require more configuration per shell-type (i.e. would need to know how to navigate to the folder, and in the case of unix-like shells how to transform the path). Note: Currently dragging a file/folder into an existing shell (i.e. not the tab) pastes the path into that shell; I'm not suggesting that this change at all (although if the path-transformation issue mentioned above is solved then maybe it could be re-used here, as windows-format paths are fairly useless in a unix-like shell).
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Reference: starred/terminal#13774