vterm : Terminal emulator inside vim.

Intro

The goal of vterm is to provide a clone of unix terminal inside vim that works right out of the box without any dependencies.

Instalation

Use your favorite package manager to install it or place autoload and plugin folders in your ~/.vim directory.

Start

To start vterm, run

:VTermStart

Configuration

History

VTerm keeps you search history. You can call the previous and next commands by pressing <C-p> and <C-n> respectively. If you wish you can change the mappings by setting the following variables:

let g:VTermKeyPrevHist="<C-p>" " call previouns command in history
let g:VTermKeyNextHist="<C-n>" " call next command in history

PS1 variable

You can customize the ps1 variable by changing the following variable:

let g:VTermPs1 = "[%U@%H %D] $"

%U is your username
%H is your hostname
%D is the working directory

Persistent insert

If this variable is non-zero, VTerm will enter automatic in insert mode when start VTerm and after entering your commands.

let g:VTermPersistentInsert=1

Doc

Please read the doc file for further configurations

Todo

• highlighting
• completion
• use a bash script/command to get the ps1 variable (?)
• handle execution of terminal based applications