term3

A terminal emulator for Atom. You can run shell sessions, Vim, Emacs, htop, etc.
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Atom Term 3

Run shell sessions within Atom Editor using term3 package. Run Vim, Emacs, Htop, etc. in Atom. It's based on pty.js as shell spawner, and term.js as xterm, with the power of Atom Package environment.

Term3 is a fork and rebuilt version of Term2 package which was a fork of Term package.

Why is Term3 a thing ?!

This fork fixes some bugs in upstream including fixing the letter k. Term3 adds a terminal list above the treeview list. Term3 also adds a service API for other plugins, like Floobits, so you can pair on your terminals in addition to your code.

To install Term3

$ apm install term3

Term3 in action

Key Bindings and Events

key binding event action
ctrl + alt + t term3:open Opens new terminal tab pane
ctrl + alt + up term3:open-split-up Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
ctrl + alt + right term3:open-split-right Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
ctrl + alt + down term3:open-split-down Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
ctrl + alt + left term3:open-split-left Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
ctrl + k, t, t term3:open Opens new terminal tab pane
ctrl + k, t, up term3:open-split-up Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
ctrl + k, t, right term3:open-split-right Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
ctrl + k, t, down term3:open-split-down Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
ctrl + k, t, left term3:open-split-left Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
cmd + k, t, t term3:open Opens new terminal tab pane
cmd + k, t, up term3:open-split-up Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
cmd + k, t, right term3:open-split-right Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
cmd + k, t, down term3:open-split-down Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
cmd + k, t, left term3:open-split-left Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
ctrl + insert term3:copy Copy text (if ctrl + c is not working)
shift + insert term3:paste Paste text (if ctrl + v is not working)

Customize Title

You can customize Title with using some variables. These are the current variables you can use:

title variable value
bashName Current Shell's name, (e.g. bash, zsh)
hostName OS's host name
platform Platform name, (e.g. darwin, linux)
home Home path of current user

Default version of title template is

Terminal ({{ bashName }})

Additional Features

  • Run a defined command automatically when shell session starts.
  • You can customize font-family or font-size (default to Atom settings values)
  • You can define Terminal Colors in config.cson.
  • Turn on or off blinking cursor
  • Change scrollback limit
  • Start shell sessions with additional parameters.
  • You can pipe the text and paths to the Terminal sessions.
  • Paste from clipboard

Note about colors

Currently, you will need to adjust the colors in config.cson (then you should be able to edit them in the package settings view).

You can add something like (please note the 2 examples of color format):

term3:
  colors:
    normalBlack: #000 
    normalRed:
      red: 255
      blue: 0
      green: 0
      alpha: 1
    normalGreen: ...
    normalYellow: ...
    normalBlue: ...
    normalPurple: ...
    normalCyan: ...
    normalWhite: ...
    brightBlack: ...
    brightRed: ...
    brightGreen: ...
    brightYellow: ...
    brightBlue: ...
    brightPurple: ...
    brightCyan: ...
    brightWhite: ...
    background: ...
    foreground: ...
  • Colors are not taken from the Atom theme.
  • alpha channel are not used for now.
  • The background color is for now the only exception and is not used. The background is transparent so you benefit of Atom app background color.

FAQ

Why some commands do not work like in my previous terminal ?

It's a known $PATH issue. You are probably an OS X user (if not, let us know). GUI app doesn't get /etc/paths (and might come from /usr/local/bin). There is some workaround for OS X 10.9-, but OS X 10.10+ doesn't execute /etc/launchd.conf anymore. So, in order to get the right PATH in atom-term3 context, you have this solutions:

  • In your .(bash|zsh|*)rc, add

    export PATH=$(cat /etc/paths | xargs | tr " " :)
    # or just hardcode your path like this 
    export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

  • You can automatically call a command when you open a terminal to login by editing your Atom config:

    term3:
      autoRunCommand: 'login -f `whoami`'

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