Question: Start a new terminal with some text already on the command line
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Description
Question
Is there a way to open a new tab or pane and prepopulate it with some command text on the command line without running it?
new tab
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> my really long and expensive command that I dont want to run right away
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- I have read the documentation and made sure what I'm looking for isn't present, or is unclear.
- I have searched for similar issues, and either this question wasn't asked before, or I didn't find any that describe my question.
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Research direction
The issue names no file, test, or entry point. Review the Cmder documentation and the six existing comments to determine whether opening a tab or pane with unexecuted text is supported; done would be a documented answer or a clearly scoped implementation request.
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Assessment
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100