Monday, April 27, 2026

Windows Terminal Tip - New Tab Behaviour

Saving this here to save me another mad search again next time:

 


If using "Windows Terminal", to make the "New Tab" behaviour sane, go into each relevant profile, and change the "Starting Directory" setting to "./"  (i.e. current directory that the active tab is using)

 

Notes: 

* This makes the behaviour match watch every other OS does, and what you'd naturally expect, when trying to fork up another terminal tab to work on a sub-task from the same deeply nested folder

* The stupid default value here defaults to "%USERPROFILE%, which is akin to opening a new window from the start menu, located miles away from where the files you want to work on here and now live!

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