'Open new tab' In MacOS Sierra Terminal opens in the home folder always about bash-powerline

[riobard]

I don't know why it behaves that way, but I'd suggest you try iTerm2 instead. Much better than Terminal.

[protoiyer]

Ok. Thanks for looking into this. I revisited some SO.com posts that I was checking in the morning, and from one of them got the missing piece that resolves the issue (towards the end - line# 156):

    # PROMPT_COMMAND=ps1                   # <- existing code, commented out
    PROMPT_COMMAND="ps1; $PROMPT_COMMAND"  # <- needed for Mac OS Sierra

[narkowicz]

Following up after encountering on a fresh install - this is something that will continue to affect the default behaviour in Terminal.app on macOS / X which sets PROMPT_COMMAND to update_terminal_cwd.

@riobard would you consider updating (or accepting a PR) so that PROMPT_COMMAND is appended as described by @protoiyer in order to solve this problem on macOS? i.e.

PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND; ps1"

This shouldn't hurt other platforms and would play nice with any other prompt commands - unless there is a reason for overriding on some configurations?

Alternatively, suggest adding a description to the README as a reminder to others and future self.

Edit: update_terminal_cwd also supports setting the window bar title to basename pwd (with icon) which provides access to the directory in Finder (via ⌘ click), drag and drop of path, etc.
(https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/139808)

[riobard]

@narkowicz I don’t personally use Terminal.app, but a PR to fix the issue would be highly appreciated :)