Feature requests: Options to show the tab's working directory, last command ran, time the command was started, and be able to fuzzy search based on these about tab-rs HOT 2 OPEN

Hi @nothingnesses,
I've thought about this as well. Particularly w/ WD and Command Histories, those could power some really nice fuzzy finder interfaces.

I haven't been able to find a way to access the working directory within the shell though. You can spawn a child process with an initial working directory, but it can change that directory without any visibility. I think it's common to initialize a tab in a project, and cd around within that project dir.

I think commands are a bit easier - those could be monitored in the shell histfile. Definitely agreed, this would be a really nice feature. I need to figure out if it's possible though.

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I haven't been able to find a way to access the working directory within the shell though. You can spawn a child process with an initial working directory, but it can change that directory without any visibility. I think it's common to initialize a tab in a project, and cd around within that project dir.

Maybe std::env::current_dir can somehow be used to extract that? Or if not, then perhaps the $PWD environment variable or pwd shell command can somehow be leveraged instead?

I think commands are a bit easier - those could be monitored in the shell histfile.

I actually think command history would be harder to extract since not all shells record command history (as with dash which is what I use primarily and doesn't record commands by default, unless compiled to have the fc built-in command). Perhaps std::io::Stdin and std:process:Command could instead somehow be used to create a sort of man-in-the-middle that accepts and records shell input commands (or maybe just the last command since that's all we'd probably want) and afterwards passes it on the the actual shell/creates the child process to be ran.

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