Notice that the command duplicate-iterm-tab is to be executed when sent to the terminal, so a line feed must be entered at the end. Since pressing ↩ in the dialog will apply changes, to enter a new line you must press ⌥ ↩ instead.įinally, click OK to create the new shortcut and then you’ll see the new shortcut in the Keys preference panel:Īn AppleScript that duplicates the iTerm tab in use This will open the shortcut addition dialog, where you’ll enter the keyboard shortcut (⌘ D), the action to trigger ( Send text), and the command to be sent to the terminal ( duplicate-iterm-tab) when the shortcut is triggered: To add a new global shortcut, just click on the + button. Why doesn’t a terminal emulator have that shortcut to duplicate a terminal tab? iTerm 2 certainly doesn’t have one, but it does have a preference panel where you can add new keyboard shortcuts:
Many applications have a ⌘ D shortcut that allows you to duplicate whatever document the application works with. Adding a new keyboard shortcut to iTerm 2 Or whatever other way you do this, it’s definitely a time waste. by browsing the file hierarchy with Quicksilver and then triggering a Quicksilver action to open the folder in iTerm.by browsing the disk until finding the folder, then creating a new tab, writing cd and dragging the path of the directory or.And wasting time is exactly what it forces me to do when I have to open a new tab in the same directory as an already existing tab. And, as such, I need it to be as much ‘out of my way’ as possible, so that using the terminal doesn’t make me waste time. The terminal is my number one programming tool.
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