To release the lock on the current directory whenever the prompt is shown in xonsh shell. Windows only xontrib.

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Installation

To install use pip:

xpip install xontrib-free-cwd
# or: xpip install -U git+https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-free-cwd

Usage

xontrib load free_cwd

Enabling this will allow other programs or Windows Explorer to delete or rename the current or parent directories. Internally, it is accomplished by temporarily resetting CWD to the root drive folder while waiting at the prompt.

Known issues

This only works with the prompt_toolkit backend and can cause issues if any extensions are enabled that hook the prompt and relies on os.getcwd().

Credits

This package was created with xontrib template.