[NCLUG] VIM Talk

Jesse Griffin jesse at tummy.com
Mon Sep 16 17:19:36 MDT 2013


I'm not exactly sure how to do it from the CLI with gnome-terminal... However,
if you go to File > Open Tab you should see a list of your profiles, you can
select whichever one you want and it will open in a new tab.

Thank you,
Jesse Griffin
tummy.com, ltd.

On 09/16/2013 05:07 PM, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 03:19 PM, Jesse Griffin wrote:
>> I believe you can do this with Profiles in gnome-terminal.  You can also do it
>> with Profiles in terminator (Preferences > Profiles > Command > "Run a custom
>> command instead of my shell").
> 
> Hmm, I don't see how to do this with profiles.  I see that gnome-terminal has the
> "--tab-with-profile" option, which seems like it would be just the ticket, but it opens a
> new window with every invocation.  I.e. if I create a new "testing" profile, then run:
> 
>     gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=testing -e "ssh foo at bar.com"
> 
> I get a new window, using the "testing" profile.  If I run it again, rather than a new tab
> in that window as I'd expect, I get another window, identical to the previous one.  If I
> pass two "--tab-with-profile" and two "-e" arguments, I get two tabs in the same window,
> but I can't figure out how to open a new tab in an existing window from the command line.
> 


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