Start new tab in last used tab working dir path [BUG]

[QuAzI]

It is better to use last working dir for new tab instead of first random chosen path

[QuAzI]

As example I started wt in any dir. Then I ran through FM (Explorer, TotalCommander... doesn't matter) CMD file which starts two copies of nodejs (es5, es6) in the same tab.

CMD example

start wt -d ./src/ApplicationFrontend/  pwsh.exe -NoExit -command npm run watch-debug-es5-only; split-pane -d ./src/ApplicationFrontend/ powershell.exe -NoExit -command npm run watch-debug-es6-only

now my script crashes because start path broken. It is not script path and not last used path. It means even if I run my script from wt - it crashes if wt started not from current path. So I must close all tabs and start from begin

[error 2147942667 (0x8007010b) when launching `pwsh.exe -NoExit -command npm run watch-debug-es5-only']
Could not access starting directory "./src/ApplicationFrontend/"

[QuAzI]

And even this workaround in start of script doesn't helps

cd %~dp0

[zadjii-msft]

Wait what exactly is the bug here?

Do you have "New instance behavior" set to "Create a new window" or "Attach to the most recent..."? Trying this out locally, I got the same error message when the tab was opening in an existing WT window. When it gets sent to a new window though, it seems to work fine

I was sure this was on the backlog somewhere... found it, or at least what I've been using to track this: #5506

[QuAzI]

"Attach to the most recent..." of course because it is more comfortable to have one window with multiple tabs. But it doesn't mean that this window combine only instances with same working dir.

[zadjii-msft]

Okay, yea, that'll be fixed by #5506 then. Thanks!

/dup #5506

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!