How to change the New Window action?

[halostatue]

I’m exploring using wezterm and can’t quite figure out how to make one thing behave like iTerm2 does, which I prefer to the current behaviour. That is:

• When creating a new split or tab, use the currently discovered directory (current behaviour)
• When creating a new window, do not use the currently discovered directory, but potentially fall back to $HOME.

This seems like it should be configurable, but I can’t figure out exactly what I would end up configuring to force the cwd to $HOME for the New Window action.

[wez]

You can redefine the key assignment for new window to set the cwd explicitly:

config.keys = {
  { key = 'n', mods = 'CMD', action = wezterm.action.SpawnCommandInNewWindow { cwd=wezterm.home_dir } },
}

[BatmanAoD]

This would be helpful as an example in the default_cwd page; I saw the link to the SpawnCommand documentation, but it seemed complicated so I just went searching until I found this issue.

[mwoodson]

Following up late on this.

@wez if you wouldn't mind answering this.

SpawnWindow is what the default command seems to be to create a new window. This was gathered when I dumped it. To me, adding the { cwd=wezterm.home_dir } to this option seems to make a lot of sense, to Spawn a new window, with the default home dir. However, this cwd parameter isn't valid on the SpawnWindow.

SpawnCommandInNewWindow is what is recommended here. But to me, SpawnCommandInNewWindow sounds like you are going to run a totally new command in a new window. This function seems to accept the cwd parameter. But the name of this is super confusing.

Could you shed any light on this?

(I am really really loving Wezterm, this just confuses me, and doesn't make sense to me...

[wez]

SpawnWindow is a limited version of SpawnCommandInNewWindow. The latter gives you more options. If you don't specify a command or a working directory, the same defaults as used by SpawWindow are used

[mwoodson]

thanks for the reply.