An Emacs package to open an external terminal emulator in directories associated with the current buffer.

Run terminal-here-launch to start a terminal in the current directory.

If the default command doesn't launch your preferred terminal you can set terminal-here-terminal-command to either a list containing the command and arguments (e.g. (list "my-terminal" "--foo")) or a function which takes a directory and returns such a list.

Recommended keybindings:

(require 'terminal-here)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<f5>") #'terminal-here-launch)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<f6>") #'terminal-here-project-launch)

Terminal-here has out-of-the-box support for some platforms, but will work anywhere with some customisation.

Out-of-the-box support tested on:

• Ubuntu 16.04 (but should work identically on any Debian-based system)
• Windows 10
• OSX

Should be supported out-of-the-box, but currently untested:

• Older versions of Windows

Requires setting terminal-here-terminal-command before use:

• Non-Debian-based UNIXes, because I haven't seen a standard way to open the user's preferred terminal

If you have problems just set terminal-here-terminal-command as described above.

terminal-here can run ssh to open terminals in remote directories for files opened with tramp. This may require additional setup because of inconsistencies between different terminals.

If your terminal has a flag to treat the rest of the command line as the command to run inside the terminal, you just need to set terminal-here-command-flag to this flag. If not it may be impossible to get ssh support. Some examples are:

• xterm, urxvt: -e (this is the default)
• gnome-terminal: -x

There are lots of built in ways to run terminals inside emacs (shell, eshell, ansi-term, ...) but these can have problems like slow output speed or incompatibility with existing configs. I currently prefer to run external terminal emulators, YMMV.

A couple of places on the internet have instructions for running specific terminals from Emacs, but they are not as portable as they could be.