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Note: Download contains v.2.3 for Snow Leopard, and releases of v.2.2 for Mac Leopard and Tiger.

DESCRIPTION

> cd to ... is a fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the frontmost finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar. It's written in Objective-C and uses apple events which makes it much faster than applescript applets that do the same thing. Support has been added for iTerm, xterm and pathfinder (ie Finder->PathFinder not PathFinder->Terminal).

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WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.3:

Snow Leopard Version

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Developer:	Jay Tuley
Downloads:	4,219
- Version d/l:	949
Utilities:	File Management
License:	Free
Date:	27 Sep 2009
Platform:	PPC/Intel

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	Sep 27 2009	ITISTODAY This is almost perfect, the one problem is that it doesn't work with Spaces. :-( (Version 2.3)		0
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	Nov 11 2008	MARK EVERITT Very useful when you need to jump in and out of a terminal. I use it when I need to do diffs or run a python script etc. (Version 2.2)		0
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	Aug 20 2008	LARSEN2K4 Pretty neat... works as advised - Since I'm using the Terminal almost every day, it's really useful to me :) (Version 2.2)		0
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	Aug 20 2008	PARIZEAU Does not work if your shell script is tcsh! I get the error message "Illegal variable name." (Version 2.2)		0
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	Feb 26 2007	ALANCOOKIE Easy to use, does what it claims, makes life easy for those of us who do not live in the Terminal.app but need to jump in occasionally. (Version 2.1.1)		0
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	Feb 25 2007	JBTULE There was a build issue with the original file posted here for 2.1.1, this is fixed now. (Version 2.1.1)		0
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	Feb 19 2007	BRANDON EDLING I dig this, especially added to the Finder toolbar. It would be nice to have the option to specify a command that runs after clicking... like ls -l, for example. (Version 2.1)		0
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	Feb 19 2007	JBTULE I've tried to correct this in the default case in 2.1. But it's really hard to figure out if the window was just created by the terminal.app, but i think i came up with a way to do it, but it only works if you haven't changed your default shell settings too much. (Version 2.1)		0
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	Feb 17 2007	RJBAILEY How does this compare to http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal/terminal_finder_interactions.html ? (Version 2.0)		0
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Feb 18 2007

JBTULE >cd to ... should be a lot faster because it's not using applescript but apple events directly instead. >cd to .. is only designed to be used from the finder toolbar (but that makes more sense because you'd have to navigate from the finder first anyway. And it seems cdf from what you've cited me uses gui scripting which is very sketchy thing to do and unnecessary because the terminal is directly scriptable to run commands.
(Version 2.0)

	Feb 17 2007	PIXXAN Can you think of any reason this would open two terminals? (One to my home directory, the other to the directory Finder was open to.) (Version 2.0)		0
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Feb 17 2007

WIDGETMAN Opening a terminal window set to your home directory is Terminal.app's default behavior. Try opening Terminal.app and just closing the default window that pops up and then use this plugin to open a terminal window.
(Version 2.0)

Feb 17 2007

GREG RAVEN OpenTerminalHere.app does the same thing, so I don't consider this unexpected behavior.
(Version 2.0)