Add preserveCWD option

app/config/config-default.js

@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ module.exports = {
     // set to true to enable screen reading apps (like NVDA) to read the contents of the terminal
     screenReaderMode: false,
 
+    // set to true to preserve working directory when creating splits or tabs
+    preserveCWD: true,
+
     // for advanced config flags please refer to https://hyper.is/#cfg
   },
 

app/ui/window.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {setRendererType, unsetRendererType} from '../utils/renderer-utils';
 import {decorateSessionOptions, decorateSessionClass} from '../plugins';
 import {enable as remoteEnable} from '@electron/remote/main';
 import {configOptions} from '../../lib/config';
+import {getWorkingDirectoryFromPID} from 'native-process-working-directory';
 
 export function newWindow(
   options_: BrowserWindowConstructorOptions,
@@ -129,10 +130,21 @@ export function newWindow(
       if (extraOptions[key] !== undefined) extraOptionsFiltered[key] = extraOptions[key];
     });
 
+    let cwd = '';
+    if (cfg.preserveCWD === undefined || cfg.preserveCWD) {
+      const activePID = extraOptionsFiltered.activeUid && sessions.get(extraOptionsFiltered.activeUid)?.pty?.pid;
+      try {
+        cwd = activePID && getWorkingDirectoryFromPID(activePID);
+      } catch (error) {
+        console.error(error);
+      }
+      cwd = cwd && isAbsolute(cwd) ? cwd : '';
+    }
+
     // remove the rows and cols, the wrong value of them will break layout when init create
     const defaultOptions = Object.assign(
       {
-        cwd: workingDirectory,
+        cwd: cwd || workingDirectory,
         splitDirection: undefined,
         shell: cfg.shell,
         shellArgs: cfg.shellArgs && Array.from(cfg.shellArgs)

lib/actions/term-groups.ts

@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ export function requestTermGroup(activeUid: string) {
     dispatch({
       type: TERM_GROUP_REQUEST,
       effect: () => {
-        const {ui} = getState();
+        const {ui, sessions} = getState();
         const {cwd} = ui;
         rpc.emit('new', {
           isNewGroup: true,
           cwd,
-          activeUid
+          activeUid: activeUid ? activeUid : sessions.activeUid
         });
       }
     });

lib/config.d.ts

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export type configOptions = {
     cmdIsMeta: boolean;
   };
   padding: string;
+  preserveCWD: boolean;
   quickEdit: boolean;
   screenReaderMode: boolean;
   scrollback: number;