D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
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Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#2Placing you automatically in the working directory of the active app is a neat feature. These pop-up/pull-down consoles are common in "alternative" Linux window managers, e.g. Ion3 comes with one built-in (hit alt+space), and there's 'yeahconsole', 'guake', etc., to add the functionality to others, but afaik none of them can do this directory magic.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#3This looks great! I'm going to give it a try.
Edit: 30-second overview: I enabled automatic updates and sent in the requested anonymous system profile--but both are strictly optional. The default hot-key selection is excellent (Shift+Command+Enter). The set of preferences is small, but useful: font, hide dock icon, hot-key choice and behavior (open/close). The Accessibility pane asks you to mark DTerm as "Trusted" in order to correctly present its window in apps other than Finder. I didn't even realize that it was running again until I tentatively tried the hot-key. It works, it's small, fast, and it works invisibly. Very nice, kudos!
Personally, I'd love to see support for Ctrl+r from BASH. Also, I wonder if there could be some way to use URLs from browsers.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#4A nice compliment to Visor. I wish it played better with Safari's download window though.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#5I use cdto, which is a nice simple script that opens up the current Finder location in Terminal.
http://code.google.com/p/cdto/
DTerm is more feature-rich, of course. Slick, too. I'll give it a try.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#6Since I found this through a comment here a little while ago, it's become part of my regular toolset. Especially with TextMate, where it'll pick up the folder of the item you're working on. I can run an operation on that file / folder really quickly, without needing to mess up the terminal window(s) I typically keep handy. (I'm usually doing Ruby / Rails work with TextMate)
My only real desire (and I know there's a way to do it, I just haven't done it): a way to open a regular Terminal window from dterm. That'd get rid of my need for any "cdto"-like script. Something so I can use `term .` .
Word of warning to users: it's not a TTY. Sometimes this can cause unexpected behavior in a program meant to be run from the terminal, and it's not interactive at all. (I ran across this when my code forked right after printing - Terminal prints normally, this prints as if going to a file, so it printed after forking the buffer)
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#7This looks great! I'm going to give it a try. Edit : 30-second overview: I enabled automatic updates and sent in the requested anonymous system profile--but both are strictly optional. The default hot-key selection is excellent (Shift+Command+Enter). The set of preferences is small, but useful: font, hide dock icon, hot-key choice and behavior (open/close). The Accessibility pane asks you to mark DTerm as "Trusted" i…
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Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#8Since I found this through a comment here a little while ago, it's become part of my regular toolset. Especially with TextMate, where it'll pick up the folder of the item you're working on. I can run an operation on that file / folder really quickly, without needing to mess up the terminal window(s) I typically keep handy. (I'm usually doing Ruby / Rails work with TextMate) My only real desire (and I know there's a w…
To open a terminal simply press cmd + return.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#9I use cdto, which is a nice simple script that opens up the current Finder location in Terminal. http://code.google.com/p/cdto/ DTerm is more feature-rich, of course. Slick, too. I'll give it a try.
cdto is great to have! To reverse this type "open ." in the terminal and your finder will open in that directory too.
Re: D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
#10This looks great! I'm going to give it a try. Edit : 30-second overview: I enabled automatic updates and sent in the requested anonymous system profile--but both are strictly optional. The default hot-key selection is excellent (Shift+Command+Enter). The set of preferences is small, but useful: font, hide dock icon, hot-key choice and behavior (open/close). The Accessibility pane asks you to mark DTerm as "Trusted" i…
Agreed, this is awesome.
I do find that I keep pressing 'up' in order to get to my recent commands and being disappointed. I guess implementing that goes along with implementing ctrl+r.