Bug 474948

Summary:	Allow creating multiple project terminals (and save location of terminal before closing Kate)
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Jack Hill <jackhill3103>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jack Hill 2023-09-27 19:12:00 UTC

SUMMARY
I need to have two terminal tabs open: one for the project's source dir and one for the build dir. In the source dir I run git commands for rebasing, etc. In the build dir I run `ctest -R testname`. Obviously these need to be run in the correct dir otherwise the commands fail. Currently there is only one Project terminal so I have to remember to `cd ../../elisa/build` and `cd ../../elisa/src` before I run these commands. If I run `ctest` in the source dir then it creates an empty `Testing` folder which is annoying since I don't always remember it's there and then I get confused when trying to change git branch.

So it would be nice if I could have two Project terminals open at the same time. Ideally the number of open terminals and their last working directory would be saved so that each time I open the project one of them is at the src dir (already happens in Kate) and the other is at the build dir.

I know that there is another Terminal pane, but I like to keep that on the mode where it follows the current document so I can easily run one-off scripts without having to make it a full-on git repo or have to `cd` to the script.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230922
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.4-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2023-09-28 05:29:53 UTC

There are 2 ways to do this, I will go with the easy way.

Open and focus the terminal and hit `Ctrl + Shift + T`.

The second way is to create a `.kateproject` file in your build folder. Kate will create two terminals IIRC, one for source dir and one for the directory where .kateproject lives. See https://github.com/KDE/kate/blob/master/.kateproject as an example and check the documentation of Kate project plugin

Comment 2 Jack Hill 2023-09-28 09:52:25 UTC

> Open and focus the terminal and hit `Ctrl + Shift + T`.

Thanks I did not know this. Perhaps this action could be added to the terminal context menu? And all the other actions that are keyboard-only.

Comment 3 Waqar Ahmed 2023-09-29 06:18:09 UTC

>  Perhaps this action could be added to the terminal context menu?

I did try that long ago, but failed to do it. So as a result this action is a bit hidden..