Bring a real terminal to Sublime Text

The first cross platform terminal for Sublime Text.

Unix shell	Cmd.exe

Terminal in panel

This package is heavily inspired by TerminalView. Compare with TerminalView, this has

Windows support
continuous history
easily customizable themes
unicode support
256 colors support
better xterm support
terminal panel
imgcat support (PS: it also works on Linux / WSL)

Installation

Package Control.

Getting started

run Terminus: Open Default Shell in View

User Key Bindings

You may find these key bindings useful. To edit, run Preferences: Terminus Key Bindings. Check the details for the arguments of terminus_open below.

toggle terminal panel

[
    { "keys": ["alt+`"], "command": "toggle_terminus_panel" }
]

open a terminal view at current file directory

[
    { 
        "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"], "command": "terminus_open", "args": {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"
        }
    }
]

or by passing a custom cmd, say ipython

[
    { 
        "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"], "command": "terminus_open", "args": {
            "cmd": "ipython",
            "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"
        }
    }
]

open terminal in a split view

[
    {
        "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"],
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args": {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "pre_window_hooks": [
                ["set_layout", {
                    "cols": [0.0, 1.0],
                    "rows": [0.0, 0.5, 1.0],
                    "cells": [[0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 1, 1, 2]]
                }],
                ["focus_group", {"group": 1}]
            ]
        }
    }
]

or by applying Origami's carry_file_to_pane

[
    {
        "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"],
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args": {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "post_window_hooks": [
                ["carry_file_to_pane", {"direction": "down"}]
            ]
        }
    }
]

User Commands in Palette

run Preferences: Terminus Command Palette. Check the details for the arguments of terminus_open below

[
    {
        "caption": "Terminus: Open Default Shell at Current Location",
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args"   : {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"
        }
    }
]

or by passing custom cmd, say ipython

[
    {
        "caption": "Terminus: Open iPython",
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args"   : {
            "cmd": "ipython",
            "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}",
            "title": "iPython"
        }
    }
]

open terminal in a split view

[
    {
        "caption": "Terminus: Open Default Shell in Split View",
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args": {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "pre_window_hooks": [
                ["set_layout", {
                    "cols": [0.0, 1.0],
                    "rows": [0.0, 0.5, 1.0],
                    "cells": [[0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 1, 1, 2]]
                }],
                ["focus_group", {"group": 1}]
            ]
        }
    }
]

or by applying Origami's carry_file_to_pane

[
    {
        "caption": "Terminus: Open Default Shell in Split View",
        "command": "terminus_open",
        "args": {
            "config_name": "Default",
            "post_window_hooks": [
                ["carry_file_to_pane", {"direction": "down"}]
            ]
        }
    }
]

User Build System

Use Terminus as a build system. For example, the following can be added to your project settings to allow "SSH to Remote" build system.

{
    "build_systems":
    [
        {
            "cmd":
            [
                "ssh", "user@example.com"
            ],
            "name": "SSH to Remote",
            "target": "terminus_open",
            "working_dir": "$folder"
        }
    ]
}

Alt-Left/Right to move between words (Unix)

Bash: add the following in .bash_profile or .bashrc

bind '"\e[1;3C": forward-word'
bind '"\e[1;3D": backward-word'

Zsh: add the following in .zshrc

bindkey "\e[1;3C" forward-word
bindkey "\e[1;3D" backward-word

Some programs, such as julia, does not recognize the standard keycodes for alt+left and alt+right. You could bind them to alt+b and alt+f respectively

[
    { "keys": ["alt+left"], "command": "terminus_keypress", "args": {"key": "b", "alt": true}, "context": [{"key": "terminus_view"}] },
    { "keys": ["alt+right"], "command": "terminus_keypress", "args": {"key": "f", "alt": true}, "context": [{"key": "terminus_view"}] }
]

Terminus API

A terminal could be opened using the command terminus_open with

window.run_command(
    "terminus_open", {
        "config_name": None,     # the shell config name, use "Default" for the default config
        "cmd": None,             # the cmd to execute
        "cwd": None,             # the working directory
        "working_dir": None,     # alias of "cwd"
        "env": {},               # extra environmental variables
        "title": None,           # title of the view
        "panel_name": None,      # the name of the panel if terminal should be opened in panel
        "tag": None,             # a tag to idFentify the terminal
        "pre_window_hooks": [],  # a list of window hooks before opening terminal
        "post_window_hooks": [], # a list of window hooks after opening terminal
        "post_view_hooks": [],   # a list of view hooks after opening terminal
        "auto_close": True       # auto close terminal if process exits successfully
    }
)

The fields cmd and cwd understand Sublime Text build system variables.

the setting view.settings().get("terminus_view.tag") can be used to identify the terminal and
keybind can be binded with specific tagged terminal

    {
        "keys": ["ctrl+alt+w"], "command": "terminus_close", "context": [
            { "key": "terminus_view.tag", "operator": "equal", "operand": "YOUR_TAG"}
        ]
    }

text can be sent to the terminal with

window.run_command(
    "terminus_send_string", 
    {
        "string": "ls\n",
        "tag": "<YOUR_TAG>"        # ignore this or set it to None to send text to the first terminal found
    }
)

If tag is not provided or is None, the text will be sent to the first terminal found in the current window.

FAQ

Terminal panel background issue

If you are using DA UI and your terminal panel has weired background color, try playing with the setting panel_background_color in DA UI: Theme Settings.

{
    "panel_background_color": "$background_color"
}

Acknowledgments

This package won't be possible without pyte, pywinpty and ptyprocess.

rwols / Terminus