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Terminal opens to / when no projects are open #46574

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Terminal opens to / when no projects are open#46574
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area:integrations/terminalFeedback for terminal integration, shell commands, etccommunity championIssues filed by our amazing community champions! 🫶frequency:commonBugs that happen for at least a third of the users across all platforms and kinds of usagepriority:P3Papercuts, minor issues with a clear workaround, cosmetic bugsstate:reproducibleVerified steps to reproduce included and someone on the team managed to reproduce
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opened on Jan 11, 2026

Reproduction steps

  1. Open Zed without a project
  2. Open the terminal

Current vs. Expected behavior

Current: The terminal opens in /.

Expected: The terminal.working_directory setting defaults to current_project_directory. The behaviour when no project is opened is not specified, but falling back to the home directory is a much more reasonable choice than /. This is what the always setting does.

Zed version and system specs

Zed: v0.218.6+stable.114.e8b0ac131bc2bf80056f3769317ef57ebf32d0d1 (Zed)
OS: macOS 15.7.3
Memory: 16 GiB
Architecture: x86_64

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