Re: Open multiple separate terminal buffers with multi-term in Emacs.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 5:28 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:57 AM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >
> > * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2021-06-02 04:39]:
> > > But I noticed that the shell commands issued in one terminal will also
> > > be shown in the other, i.e., they are the identical one. And I want to
> > > open multiple separate terminal buffers, with which I can issue
> > > different shell commands in them respectively and observe the
> > > corresponding executions of them.
> >
> > You can use `ansi-term' command to open terminal with different programs:
> >
> > ansi-term is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in
> > ‘term.el’.
> >
> > (ansi-term PROGRAM &optional NEW-BUFFER-NAME)
> >
> >   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 28.1.
> >
> > Start a terminal-emulator in a new buffer.
> > This is almost the same as ‘term’ apart from always creating a new buffer,
> > and ‘C-x’ being marked as a ‘term-escape-char’.
> >
> > This below would open 2 different terminals with different shells:
> >
> > (ansi-term "/bin/bash")
> > (ansi-term "/bin/zsh")
> >
> > You can then use argument to invoke new program in new term.
> >
> > (defun run-with-term ()
> >   (interactive)
> >   "Runs new command with term"
> >   (let ((my-programs '("/bin/bash" "/usr/bin/mc")))
> >     (ansi-term (completing-read "Program to run: " my-programs nil nil))))
> >
>
> Thank you. It really does the trick.

But how can I get these terminal buffers to be tiled so that switching
between them is easy?

HY
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