awatibi01: Opening new Terminal window from Finder

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Opening new Terminal window from Finder

I use the Terminal and Midnight Commander quite often. However, opening a new terminal window and then changing to the directory location where I need to use the command line takes time. The Toolbar Dragpoints hint brought me to an idea to create a short AppleScript that opens a new terminal window in the folder active in Finder:

 on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)   tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)   return appNameIsRunning end ApplicationIsRunning  tell application "Finder"   try     set winLoc to target of the front window as text   on error     set winLoc to home as text   end try   set pth to quoted form of POSIX path of winLoc end tell  if ApplicationIsRunning ...