Blog: Maruru Title: Enhanced Open Terminal Here, for Leopard Category: software Category: tips Open Terminal Here is an AppleScript by Marc Liyanage which allows to open a new Terminal window and `cd` to the current Finder location by a mere click. This is delightful for heavy Terminal users. Now that Leopard's Terminal finally has tabs there has been a modification of the original script to take advantage of those when your front-most shell is busy (running top or vi). Better integration with the Finder also showed through better icons. screenshot-open terminal here

However I still did not find the ease I had with OnMyCommand and iTerm scripts: with a right click I could open a new window or a new tab, in the current or in the parent directory. Using those scripts in Leopard was less than ideal since the menu of OnMyCommand is buried under the "More" item in the Finder's contextual menu and the scripts had to be rewritten for Apple's Terminal which is more robust than iTerm. So I decided to improve on all the work other already did and modify Open Terminal Here. Using a method wonderfully described by jobu at MacScripter I was able to detect key-down events when at the start of the application and used them to modify the behavior of the script. Now:

Clicking the application icon creates a new Terminal at the Finder's location
⌘ + Clicking opens a new tab in the frontmost Terminal instead of opening a new window
⌥ + Clicking runs the cd command in the frontmost Terminal window if it is not busy. Other wise it opens a new winddow/tab (depending on the state of ⌘)

You can download the application below and then drag its icon to the Finder's toolbar