Table Of Contents

• Toggle Term
  • Installation
    • Melpa
    • Quelpa
      • Quelpa Use Package
  • Usage
    • Functions
    • Helper Functions
    • Variables

Toggle Term

toggle-term.el is an Emacs package inspired by toggleterm.nvim, allowing you to spawn a persistent term, vterm, eat, shell, eshell, or ielm at the bottom of the frame and switch between them when needed.

Installation

Melpa

As of 05/26/24 toggle-term.el is part of the MELPA

Just add the following to your init.el if you already have the MELPA added:

(use-package toggle-term
  :bind (("M-o f" . toggle-term-find)
         ("M-o t" . toggle-term-term)
         ("M-o v" . toggle-term-vterm)
         ("M-o a" . toggle-term-eat)
         ("M-o s" . toggle-term-shell)
         ("M-o e" . toggle-term-eshell)
         ("M-o i" . toggle-term-ielm)
         ("M-o o" . toggle-term-toggle))
  :config
    (setq toggle-term-size 25)
    (setq toggle-term-switch-upon-toggle t))

Quelpa

(quelpa
 '(toggle-term :fetcher github
               :repo "justinlime/toggle-term.el"))
(setq toggle-term-size 25)
(setq toggle-term-switch-upon-toggle t)
(require 'toggle-term)

Quelpa Use Package

(use-package toggle-term
  :quelpa (toggle-term :fetcher github :repo "justinlime/toggle-term.el")
  :bind (("M-o f" . toggle-term-find)
         ("M-o t" . toggle-term-term)
         ("M-o v" . toggle-term-vterm)
         ("M-o a" . toggle-term-eat)
         ("M-o s" . toggle-term-shell)
         ("M-o e" . toggle-term-eshell)
         ("M-o i" . toggle-term-ielm)
         ("M-o o" . toggle-term-toggle))
  :config
    (setq toggle-term-size 25)
    (setq toggle-term-switch-upon-toggle t))

Usage

Functions

Toggle-term provides the following main functions:

toggle-term-find

Switch to an active toggle, or create a new one.

toggle-term-toggle

Toggle the last used toggle.

Helper Functions

The follwing helper functions are included for use with keybinds:

toggle-term-term

Toggle a term, named toggle-term-term

toggle-term-vterm

Toggle a term, named toggle-term-vterm

toggle-term-eat

Toggle a eat-term, named toggle-term-eat

toggle-term-shell

Toggle a shell, named toggle-term-shell

toggle-term-eshell

Toggle an eshell, named toggle-term-eshell

toggle-term-ielm

Toggle an ielm, named toggle-term-ielm

Variables

toggle-term-size

This can be used to set the size, which is a percentage of the window the toggle will occupy.

This would set the toggle to occupy 25% of the available window:

(setq toggle-term-size 25)

NOTE: values too high, or too low, may cause unexpected behavior

toggle-term-switch-upon-toggle

Determines if the window created by toggle term should be switched to upon spawning:

(setq toggle-term-switch-upon-toggle t)

toggle-term-use-persp

Optionally use perspective integration, automatically enabled when persp-mode is enabled.

(setq toggle-term-use-persp t)

toggle-term-init-toggle

Optionally define an initial toggle that will be the first used when invoking toggle-term-toggle.

;; '("name-of-toggle" . type-of-toggle)
(setq toggle-term-init-toggle '("my-terminal" . "term"))
;; or
(setq toggle-term-init-toggle '("my-shell" . "shell"))
;; etc