Re: [screen-devel] [PATCH] process: add RC_ADOPTWD adopt working directory

[vcaputo]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:48:22PM +0100, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:30:35 -0700
> Vito Caputo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > s is an RC_CHDIR convenience helper which discovers the working
> > directory of the foreground window.
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I'm not sure about this patch, seems to be overly linux specific to me.
> 
> Also, you can have nested shells, which will probably make it behave in
> ways you don't expect it to behave (by changing to parent directory
> instead of childs).
> 
> Amadeusz

Is there a way to achieve the same thing purely through runtime
configuration?

If not, perhaps just a minimum of extension can be done to make that
possible in a more OS-agnostic way.

Assigning a key to perform RC_CHDIR on a string acquired from an external
command which can be fed the PID of the foreground window's process through
a configurable format string is the kind of thing I'm imagining.  Then in
my use case I'd just do the linux-specific assume-no-subshells /proc-based
introspection in the external command referenced in my config.

If this is already possible, please let me know, thanks.

Regards,
Vito Caputo