Shell-here
Open a shell buffer in (or relative to) default-directory,
e.g. whatever directory the current buffer is in. If you have
projectile or find-file-in-project installed, you can also move
around relative to the root of the current project.
I use Emacs shell buffers for everything, and shell-here is great for getting where you need to quickly. Projectile / FFIP integration makes it very easy to manage multiple shells and maintain your path / history / scrollback when switching between projects.
Installation
Use Marmalade and ELPA / package.el.
Recommended binding: C-c !
(require 'shell-here)
(define-key (current-global-map) "\C-c!" 'shell-here)Usage
C-c ! | Open a shell in the current directory |
C-1 C-c ! | Open a shell one level up from current |
C-2 C-c ! | Open a shell two levels up from current (etc) |
C-u C-c ! | Open a new shell in the current directory |
C-- C-c ! | Open a shell in the current project root |
C-- C-1 C-c ! | Open a shell one level up from root |
C-- C-2 C-c ! | Open a shell two levels up from root (etc) |
C-- C-u C-c ! | Open a new shell in the project root |
Configuration
There are two things you can configure, both dealing with how
shell-here determines the root of the project you’re in.
shell-here-project-root-functions. This variable contains a list of functions to determine the root of the project. The first one that’s bound will be called with no arguments. The first truthy value returned will be the root.shell-here-project-root-files. Ifshell-here-project-root-functionsis nil or doesn’t produce a truthy value,locate-dominating-filewill be called for each entry in this variable, until one returns a truthy value.
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.