Support duplicate pane / tab in Windows Terminal natively

[MattKotsenas]

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Windows Terminal can open a new shell in the same working directory using it's "duplicate pane / tab" feature: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory.

To accomplish this, the shell must emit a magic escape sequence that contains the current working directory. I have this working in my custom prompt today with the following segment:

{
  "_comment": "// Emit control sequence so Windows Terminal can duplicate tabs / panes to the current working directory. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory",
  "type": "text",
  "style": "plain",
  "template": "{{if .Segments.Path.Location }}\u001b]9;9;\"{{ .Segments.Path.Location }}\"\u001b\\{{ end }}"
}

While it's possible to enable this with a custom segment, terminal's duplication feature has the "wow" factor to the point that I thought it might be worth supporting this in omp directly, either as a part of the default prompt theme, or as a property like emit_windows_terminal_pwd_escape_sequence on the Path segment.

If you feel this doesn't fit with the goals / direction of omp, feel free to close.

Thanks for the awesome work!

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@MattKotsenas this is available using the pwd configuration parameter.

[MattKotsenas]

Oh! Will take a look! Sorry for wasting your time!

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@MattKotsenas you didn't. I need to adjust the docs so this can be found more easily.

[MattKotsenas]

I made a PR to the WT docs to mention that the escape sequence has a name: MicrosoftDocs/terminal#779.