A plugin to open a terminal in a particular directory selected from the project tree

Question

I use git bash for my terminal configuration and it has --cd option where I can pass the path to open terminal in:

I have pretty deeply nested directory structure and thought it would be very convenient to open terminal in the directory I select in the tree:

Is there a plugin that can do that? If not, how hard will it be to write my own simple plugin?

It will probably be very basic:

read the currently selected folder path
run "open terminal" action supplied the command line string with the concatenated path

Thanks

Possible duplicate of [Setup git in Intellij terminal](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21676150/setup-git-in-intellij-terminal) — Meo, Aug 31 '17 at 14:59
You may drag a folder (from Project View) and drop it into the tabs area in already opened built-in Terminal -- will it work for you? — LazyOne, Aug 31 '17 at 17:08
@LazyOne, that's absolutely great! Thanks. Can you post it as answer? — Max Koretskyi, Aug 31 '17 at 17:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '17 at 15:10

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there are no such plugins, please vote for IDEA-116724 and linked tickets.

You can try opening sh as External tool instead, like:

Program: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
Parameters: /C "start sh.exe"
Working directory: $FileDir$

the only issue is that it will be opened as external window, not inside IDE

answered Aug 31 '17 at 15:10

lena

in `Settings | Tools | External Tools`, press `+` to add a new tool – lena Aug 31 '17 at 16:49
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@MaximKoretskyi https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Running+External+Tools+in+PhpStorm – LazyOne Aug 31 '17 at 17:46

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