Atom Term 2

Run shell sessions within Atom Editor using term2 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.

It's a fork and rebuilt version of "Term" package.

What about this fork ?!

This fork adds a 'ShellOverride' configuration option which allows to override the shell Term2 is using (your default shell).

If your default shell is zsh you see that it's not yet fully compatible with Term2 (scrolling might not work): setting ShellOverride to i.e. 'bash' let you use Term2 with another (working) shell without messing up with your default shell configuration.

The fork was focused on this option in the first place but evolved a lot since.

To install Term2 easily into your Atom:

$ apm install term2

Vim, Emacs and HTop

Key Bindings and Events

key binding	event	action
`ctrl + alt + t`	`term2:open`	Opens new terminal tab pane
`ctrl + alt + up`	`term2:open-split-up`	Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
`ctrl + alt + right`	`term2:open-split-right`	Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
`ctrl + alt + down`	`term2:open-split-down`	Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
`ctrl + alt + left`	`term2:open-split-left`	Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
`ctrl + k, t, t`	`term2:open`	Opens new terminal tab pane
`ctrl + k, t, up`	`term2:open-split-up`	Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
`ctrl + k, t, right`	`term2:open-split-right`	Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
`ctrl + k, t, down`	`term2:open-split-down`	Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
`ctrl + k, t, left`	`term2:open-split-left`	Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
`cmd + k, t, t`	`term2:open`	Opens new terminal tab pane
`cmd + k, t, up`	`term2:open-split-up`	Opens new terminal tab pane in up split
`cmd + k, t, right`	`term2:open-split-right`	Opens new terminal tab pane in right split
`cmd + k, t, down`	`term2:open-split-down`	Opens new terminal tab pane in down split
`cmd + k, t, left`	`term2:open-split-left`	Opens new terminal tab pane in left split
`ctrl + insert`	`term2:copy`	Copy text (if `ctrl + c` is not working)
`shift + insert`	`term2: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):

term2:
  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-term2 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:
```
term2:
  autoRunCommand: 'login -f `whoami`'
```