multi-vterm.el

Managing multiple vterm buffers in Emacs This package is inspired by multi-term.el

Installation

multi-vterm is available on MELPA, and it can be installed as normal package

(use-package multi-vterm :ensure t)

Configuration

Dedicated terminal height

Configure the height in rows:

;; dedicated terminal height of 50 rows
(setq multi-vterm-dedicated-window-height 50)

Configure the height in percent:

;; dedicated terminal height of 30%
(setq multi-vterm-dedicated-window-height-percent 30)

If multi-vterm-dedicated-window-height-percent is set multi-vterm-dedicated-window-height is ignored. Note: The lower limit is 10% and the upper limit is 90%.

Usage

Command	Description
multi-vterm	Create new terminal
multi-vterm-next	Switch to next terminal
multi-vterm-prev	Switch to previous terminal
multi-vterm-dedicated-toggle	Toggle dedicated terminal
multi-vterm-project	Create/toggle terminal based on current project

For Evil users

I'm using Evil. This is my personal config to use multi-vterm with evil

(use-package multi-vterm
	:config
	(add-hook 'vterm-mode-hook
			(lambda ()
			(setq-local evil-insert-state-cursor 'box)
			(evil-insert-state)))
	(define-key vterm-mode-map [return]                      #'vterm-send-return)

	(setq vterm-keymap-exceptions nil)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-e")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-f")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-a")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-v")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-b")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-w")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-u")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-d")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-n")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-m")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-p")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-j")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-k")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-r")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-t")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-g")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-c")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'insert vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-SPC")    #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd "C-d")      #'vterm--self-insert)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd ",c")       #'multi-vterm)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd ",n")       #'multi-vterm-next)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd ",p")       #'multi-vterm-prev)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd "i")        #'evil-insert-resume)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd "o")        #'evil-insert-resume)
	(evil-define-key 'normal vterm-mode-map (kbd "<return>") #'evil-insert-resume))