Add an action to "Open in File Explorer"

[zadjii-msft]

Kinda the opposite of the context menu. Open the CWD in file explorer. Trick here, shell needs to have been configured for path integration.

Maybe there's a way to make the action do nothing if the active Terminal hasn't set one?

Also relevant: #3337, #5916

Other thoughts: What if the user has a path selected? Check if that text is a path, that path exists, and if so, then open that path in explorer maybe?

[vefatica]

It seems like this ought to be a feature of the shell. START . works in CMD, PowerShell, and TCC. In TCC I can assign it to a keystroke.

shell needs to have been configured for path integration

What does that mean? Does it refer to some mechanism that already exists?

[zadjii-msft]

I mean, theoretically, yea. This is super doable in the shell. I'm more tracking this as a sub-task of the right-click context menu, or as a trigger. We need an action internally to hook up the context menu entry.

What does that mean? Does it refer to some mechanism that already exists

Yea I'm talking about the OSC9;9 shell integration, as described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory

[vefatica]

Yea I'm talking about the OSC9;9 shell integration

That's pretty neat and works as advertized (along with Ctrl+Shift+d). It's the sort of thing I don't often want to do. Most likely, by the next time I want to duplicate a tab, I'll have forgotten about the keystroke (and this thread).

Are there other benefits that could come from a shell using OSC9;9 to send a string to WT?

Is OSC9;9 documented anywhere other then the tutorial you mentioned? I didn't find it in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences.

[zadjii-msft]

Are there other benefits that could come from a shell using OSC9;9 to send a string to WT?

At the moment not really, but who knows what we might do with it in the future. Like, maybe #12863.

OSC9;9 was originally authored by ConEmu so they've got slightly better docs https://conemu.github.io/en/ShellWorkDir.html