Customizing right-click context menu "open Windows terminal here" for Cygwin (and other) profile

[CC-Hsu]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Hi, Team,

Microsoft Terminal supports customizing profile and Cygwin is one of supported configuration.

However, currently right-click context menu "open Windows terminal here" (my environment: Windows10) does not work great with Cygwin since Cygwin recoginzes Unix-like path expression.

In Cygwin, one can execute cygpath -u "Windows Full Directory Path Name" to map to the corresponding representation, and cd $(cygpath -u 'Windows Full Directory Path Name') to open Cygwin in the desired directory.

As far as I know, one can adjust from RegEdit, but it requires in-depth knowledge about RegEdit and search for right config to edit.

So it would be helpful if Microsoft Terminal Can support customizing right-click context menu command, supporting passing full Windows directory path as variable for customized command.

Besides, I find there are some similar feature requests about WSL environment #12961, I guess similar trick may also works for WSL, too.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Adding a new profile key/value for customizing "right-click context menu" action (in the following setting page screenshot), and provide some shortcut that represents directory path for substitute.

Best Regards.

[lhecker]

Solving this issue seems closely related to solving #1772, right?

[zadjii-msft]

tbh I was gonna double check what bash --login -i does. That might always ignore the CWD it was started in. There might be some other flag to bash that might let it be a login shell, but also respect the CWD it was started in.

That was my first idea.

[zadjii-msft]

Case in point:

• https://superuser.com/questions/345964/start-bash-shell-cygwin-with-correct-path-without-changing-directory
• https://superuser.com/a/743579/1069381

[CC-Hsu]

Hi,

I explore RegEdit (inspired by this old post) and find that Cygwin itself provides another script /usr/bin/xhere (in its core package Chere) to start a Cygwin bash shell in specified directory, accepting the same argument %V as vanilla Powershell.

And it also displays a way that WSL open in specified path, which works similarly as git bash by providing --cd option.

In the above screenshot, it seems that it does not necessary to start a bash shell with --login -i option? But I am not quite sure about it. 😅

Best Regards.

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #6111 for more discussion.

/dup #6111

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

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!