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Comment by dharmab | Hacker News Reader

I switched to kitty because it supports a killer feature I became accustomed to in iTerm- a keybind for "Open a new terminal in the same directory as the current terminal."

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This is something that I never learnt how to do with Xterm, I put the keybinding in Bash:

bind -x '"\C-T": _terminal_here'

I would love to know how to execute a command from Xterm directly, I am sure that it is possible.

Try this:

    XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\
        Ctrl <Key>T: spawn-new-terminal()

That opens the new terminal in the home directory, right? My keybind opens it in whatever directory I’m already in which I find handy in deeply nested projects.

It opens in the current directory, not just home.

Sweet!

Works like a charm, thank you.

alacritty offers that as well.

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