Add support for creating new terminal tabs and executing commands on them

[knoopx]

Terminitor (http://github.com/achiu/terminitor) already supports this for Terminal.app on OSX.
For me is a killer feature, however I miss variables and templates, so would you mind a merge? I'm open to collaboration, however we must look for cross-platform support.

[joshnesbitt]

Thanks for this.

I agree this would be a nice feature. In the past I've done this with AppleScript but as you said, it needs to provide a cross platform solution. This could also go hand in hand with #3. I'm looking at creating a more controlled way to execute commands at the moment - how would you describe whether a command needs to open in a new tab or just run as normal?

[joshnesbitt]

Just checked out Terminitor. Seems like it too has an AppleScript dependency. Any ideas on how this could be done in a generic way?

[knoopx]

Well I guess the only way is to implement different backends for each platform and conditionally execute them at runtime? Or maybe as a parameter in yaml file.

[joshnesbitt]

I think that would work quite nicely. Sniff the host OS and use the correct method. An extra param seems like overkill if we can do it automatically...?

[joshnesbitt]

Would you still be willing to work on this? I'm game for trying to get a solution together. I added shared session state across all commands within a workflow in 1.2.0 so pairing this with tabs would be great.