globalSummon a new tab in explorer CWD

[zadjii-msft]

Hey,
little question. The quake mode is really nice, but is there a way to automatically open the terminal/quake mode on current focused explorer folder.

For example I have focused an Explorer window in my Downloads directory and then press ctrl+alt+t (my shortcut for quake mode) it should automatically open the console in this directory.

Thanks

Originally posted by @meydominic in #8888 (comment)

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I'm not sure that is possible, sorry 😕 When pressing the global hotkey, we don't get any context about the active window.......

ah shoot. okay. So, maybe we could:

• get the foreground window,
• check if it's an explorer.exe window,
• then use the hack we're already using for the background context menu to get the path of that window.

That might work. We'd still need a setting for "when this globalSummon action is performed, open a new tab with the explorer CWD." That of course leads to "I want to globalSummon in explorer and get a new pane" or "I want to globalSummon in explorer and new a new pane and have that pane running {profile}"

This deserves it's own thread

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Summary

A keyboard shortcut to open terminal app in the same path as file explorer window.

Lot of devs who use VS code or similar editors/IDEs are familiar with the shortcut `ctrl + `` to open terminal in the project's path.
Though windows have a right click shortcut for it, the keyboard shortcut is just muscle memory.

from @MG-LSJ in #17192

[NotWearingPants]

I'd also like to suggest that since launching powershell (and perhaps other shells) is super slow (measured 3s on my machine), that there'd also be a way to change the CWD of the existing quake tab (maybe by sending the keystrokes of a cd command?).

[zadjii-msft]

From #15060

Unsure how this would be technically implemented, but I don't imagine that it would be too difficult to get the currently active File Explorer window (if the currently focus window is a File Explorer window) and then get the path, something similar to this: stackoverflow.com/a/20961047