Stickiness in Emacs multi-term

This adds stickiness to multi-term buffers so that they stick to their own windows.

Installation

Backup multi-term.el and multi-term-autoloads.el from Emacs package directory

mv ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term.el ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term.el.bak
mv ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term-autoloads.el ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term-autoloads.el.bak

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/shrir/emacs-multi-term-stickiness.git

Copy multi-term scripts to Emacs package directory

cp emacs-multi-term-stickiness/multi-term.el ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term.el
cp emacs-multi-term-stickiness/multi-term-autoloads.el ~/.emacs.d/elpa/multi-term-<package-version>/multi-term-autoloads.el

Why stickiness?

Multiple terminal buffers are quite useful but sometimes you loose track of how many you have open. And its a bit annoying to cycle through them to find the one you are looking for.

When and How to use stickiness?

You decide but here’s when it makes most sense:

Show all terminal buffers

If you need to see all terminal buffers(especially if you have plenty screen estate). Use a toggle switch `multi-term-stickiness-toggle` or turn it on by default in your Emacs configuration with `(multi-term-stickiness t)`

Quickly switch between terminal buffers

If you have too many terminal buffers open, its easier to switch with sticky mode on.

1. If you’re not already in sticky mode, turn it on `multi-term-stickiness-toggle`.
2. Switch to the buffer# of your choice or with `multi-term-next`/`multi-term-prev`.
3. Turn sticky mode off with the toggle switch, if it bothers you.

Known Issues

multi-term pop up/out(with `shell-pop`) does not pop up/out all sticky terminal windows together. A work around is to switch to the main multi-term window and then pop it out.