Launch a new command in a vertical or horizontal split.

[zachriggle]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Terminator lacks feature of other terminal emulators like tmux split-window -h zsh which splits the existing window horizontally.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful if there were a way to launch a program in a vertical or horizontal split of the current, EXISTING window.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Layouts are useful, but one can only launch a new window with a new layout, not modify an existing window/layout.

Additional context
"Super Guide to the split-window tmux Subcommand (and Beyond)"
https://gist.github.com/sdondley/b01cc5bb1169c8c83401e438a652b84e

[zachriggle]

Update: I recently learned about remotinator which does allow creating new splits, but does not allow specifying the command run within them in the way that tmux does.

[davewongillies]

I think it'd be useful if the functionality of remotinator was merged into terminator. Its kind of weird that remotinator exists when terminator itself has the --new-tab switch, which is pretty similar to alot of what remotinator does.

[mattrose]

Agreed. I always thought it was weird, but it was like that when I got here 😃 and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to re-incorporate it into the main terminator script.

[davewongillies]

Agreed. I always thought it was weird, but it was like that when I got here and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to re-incorporate it into the main terminator script.

I looked into this back when terminator was hosted on launchpad but didn't get anywhere since I couldn't figure out how to contribute.

I've noticed that there's already functions for creating horizontal and vertical splits, eg:

https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/blob/master/terminatorlib/ipc.py#L141-L149

So it shouldn't be too hard. If I have the time I might take a crack at it since it looks like the bulk of the work might already be done.

[mattrose]

PRs are always welcome. One of the reasons we moved to github was to encourage more people to contribute. I had more free time last year, but now both Markus and I are both doing this in our spare time and appreciate all the help we can get.

[mattrose]

Had some free time today and implemented this; You can now run remotinator vsplit [-T <title>] [-x <command>] and it will split the termnal and run a command in the new terminal