urxvt-last-dir
Spawning a terminal in the same directory as the working directory of the
current foreground process is quite useful. In vim, this is doubly so when
combined with vim-rooter. However,
environments are subtly different: are we running under X or Wayland? Is the
terminal emulator a single instance application? Is the process wrapped in
tmux? Is the foreground process correctly identified?
Perl extension
remember-last-dir.pl and
open-last-dir.pl are Perl extensions for urxvtd+urxvtc
that track the last open terminal. The original script is courtesy of
Raphaël Medaer, as published at
https://raphael.medaer.me/2019/06/21/urxvt-open-current-wd.html. It has been
extended to use the current directory of the foreground process, rather
than the current directory of the parent shell. To use, copy or link the
scripts to the ~/.urxvt/ext/ directory, then add the following line to your
~/.Xresources:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: remember-last-dir.pl
Once you have restarted urxvtd, invoke with urxvtc -pe open-last-dir.pl.
See also
You may be interested in xcwd.sh instead, which is a tiny shell script that produces the working directory of the focused terminal.