New Terminal for Window

Summary: Makes a Terminal window for working on the current window’s file.
Requires: BBEdit 6.5, Mac OS X
Suggested Key Binding: Command-Shift-1

Description

This script opens a new Terminal window and sets the working directory to the parent folder of the current document. So, for instance, you can invoke the script and type “make<enter>” to compile/LaTeX/whatever the current file.

By default, the script is bound to Command-!, because the roughly equivalent “shell-command” feature in Emacs is bound to M-!.

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Script

tell application

 "BBEdit"

    if

class of window 1 is disk browser window

 then

        set

s to selection of window

 1

        set

f to alias 1 of s



    else

        set

f to file of window

 1

    end if

end tell



tell

application

 "Finder"

    set

c to f's container as alias

set

p to POSIX path of c



end tell



tell

application

 "Terminal"

do script "cd " & quoted form of p

activate



end tell

Last Modified: 2007-08-17