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Add action to bring up a Cmd Palette with your previous directories
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see: #5400, {Add action to bring up a Cmd Palette with just `sendInput` actions}, and to a lesser extent #3121. Also #3158, #8166 et. al.
Okay, so the shell can tell the Terminal what the CWDs are. Terminal should store those in a queue, and then provide a way to hook them up to a cmdpal filled with them as `sendInput` actions. So hit enter on one of them in the cmdpal and presto, `cd path/to/place/i/was/before↩` gets sent to the terminal to CD back to that directory.
This assumes you're in a context where `cd some\path` _will_ work. Obviously, vim, emacs wouldn't work. Something like `ssh` gets tricky I suppose.
Maybe it doesn't work in the alt buffer, since a shell probably isn't active there?
iTerm2 has something like this. I think they use a side panel, but whatever. Docs: https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html, under "Recent Directories"
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