Introducing vtermux
vtermux is a new package designed to enhance terminal usability within Emacs. It allows developers to run multiple terminal buffers per project and name them semantically, addressing limitations in existing terminal emulation. The package aims to streamline workflows by integrating various tools into a single interface.
- ▪vtermux enables users to specify and run multiple programs in the context of a directory.
- ▪The package includes a macro, vtermux-define, for easy program specification.
- ▪It features a built-in launcher, vtermux-run, to streamline the execution of commands.
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The terminal is still where most developers live. The UNIX philosophy of being able to shuffle data from one application to another is essential when one’s job is building things; reusable components are a critical necessity. As such, when developers build tools, even when not thinking about interoperability, the first class audience is the terminal. Now with LLMs making it almost trivial to build decent UIs, terminal user interfaces (TUIs) are popping up to supplement command-line interfaces (CLIs) that came from the first command prompts.If you are an Emacs user, you might have a terminal open on another screen next to your full-screen Emacs instance to handle the various commands you will need to enter, and this is a perfectly valid workflow that many of us use.
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