lite-xl-terminal

lite-xl-terminal is a (mostly) fully-featured terminal emulator designed to slot into lite-xl as a plugin for windows (Windows 10+ only), mac and linux.

Description

A simple, and straightforward integrated terminal that presents itself as xterm-256color. Supports:

1. A configurable-length scrollback buffer.
2. Alternate buffer support for things like vim and htop.
3. Configurable color support.
4. Signal characters.
5. Configurable shell.
6. Selecting from terminal.
7. Copying from terminal.
8. UTF-8 support.
9. Terminal resizing.
10. Locked scrollback regions.
11. And more!

By default, will use $SHELL as your shell if present. If not, we will use sh on linux and mac (though this is configurable), and %COMSPEC% or c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe on windows.

Usage

You can activate the terminal as a docked view at the bottom of your editor by either pressing alt+t, or running the Terminal: Toggle Drawer command.

You can also put a TerminalView into your main viewing pane by using ctrl+shift+` or by running the Terminal: Open Tab command. It can be closed with ctrl+shift+w.

Most commands that would normally be bound to ctrl+<key> in the editor can be accessed by ctrl+shift+<key> when the terminal has focus.

Supported Shells

The following shells are tested on each release to ensure that they actually function:

• bash (Linux/Mac/Windows 10+)
• dash (Linux/Mac)
• zsh (Linux/Mac)
• cmd.exe (Windows 10+)

More shells should work, but are not tested outright.

Installation

The easiest way to install lite-xl-terminal is to use lpm, and then run the following command:

lpm install terminal

If you want to simply try it out, you can use lpm's run command:

lpm run terminal

If you want to grab it directly, and build it from the repo, on Linux, Mac or MSYS on Windows you can do:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-terminal.git \
  --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules && cd lite-xl-terminal && \
  ./build.sh && cp -R plugins/terminal ~/.config/lite-xl/plugins && \
  cp libterminal.so ~/.config/lite-xl/plugins/terminal

If you want to install on Windows, but don't have MSYS, you can download the files directly from our release page, download libterminal.x86_64-windows.dll, as well as the Source Code, and place both the dll, and the plugins/terminal/init.lua from the source code archive into your lite-xl plugins directory as plugins/terminal/init.lua and plugins/terminal/libterminal.x86_64-windows.dll.

Stanalone

If you want to use terminal as a standalone terminal, here's a handy script you can use:

LITE_SCALE=1 lpm run terminal --config 'config.plugins.treeview=false config.plugins.workspace=false config.always_show_tabs=false local _,_,x,y = system.get_window_size() system.set_window_size(800, 500, x, y) local TerminalView = require "plugins.terminal".class local old_close = TerminalView.close function TerminalView:close() old_close(self) os.exit(0) end core.add_thread(function() command.perform("terminal:open-tab") local node = core.root_view.root_node:get_node_for_view(core.status_view) node:close_view(core.root_view.root_node, core.status_view) end)'

Status

1.0 has been released. It should be functional on Windows 10+, Linux, and MacOS.

Building

As this is a native plugin, it requires building. Currently it has no dependencies other than the native OS libraries for each OS.

Linux, Mac, and Windows MSYS

./build.sh -g

Linux -> Windows

CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc BIN=libterminal.dll ./build.sh -g