Consider using the VTE/Terminal.app mechanism for CWD/host reporting
OS X's Terminal.app and gnome terminal have a common mechanism for the shell to report the current working directory and current hostname which is decently well supported out there. It may be a nice idea for iTerm to handle these escapes to better inform the directory history when using shells without integration installed and simplify the integration work necessary otherwise.
The working directory and location of the current document may be set using the Operating System Command (OSC) escape sequence:
ESC ] Ps ; Pt BEL
The parameter Ps is either 6 (document) or 7 (working directory) and Pt is a “file:” URL. The URL should include a hostname to disambiguate local and remote paths, and characters must be percent-encoded as appropriate.
When both the working directory and document are set only the document is displayed.
ie. one may get a cwd of file://mycomputer.local/home/floam/src.
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Milestone changed to Feature Complete 3.1
I definitely wanted to report this, probably forgot :)
The discussion at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475 might bring up some points worth being aware of.
$PROMPT_COMMAND or $PS1 should be set to emit the corresponding escapes, probably this is set up by default on Mac (since Terminal.app can use this mechanism to open new tabs at the same directory); if not then I guess it could go to iTerm's shell integration.
Another thing not to forget is to set PWD for the shell in newly opened tabs containing the desired directory, so that symlinks in the path are preserved.
Actually I think you did and this is a duplicate - #3939 (closed)
Dup of #3939 (closed)
