[_chendo_]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that wanted this workflow!

I added this the first cut of this feature to iTerm2 about a decade ago because I often work in the terminal, but sometimes need to reference files elsewhere in my workflow. The feature was named "Semantic History" although in hindsight, it's not a very good name.

To use, hold Cmd and click+drag the path to where you want to drop it. Behind the scenes, the current working directory is stored with the position of the buffer, so it works on relative paths even when you change your working directory. On Cmd+Drag, it searches the buffer around the cursor until it finds a valid path to work with.

[codesnik]

TIL that current working directory is stored with buffer lines. Cool idea.

I've quickly tried to drag and drop file from another directory earlier from the history to the terminal itself, but it was converted to "cd directory" command somehow.

[dunham]

On iPad "secure shellfish" can do this over an ssh connection. You can grab a file out of an "ls" listing and drag it to another app. (You do have to highlight the name first, so not quite as ergonomic as iTerm.)