Termup

Automate opening up terminal tabs (or split panes) with a set of routine commands.

It's the easiest way to get started for your projects every day.

Compatible with Terminal.app and iTerm 2 on Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.9 and Ruby 1.8.7 - 2.1.

For iTerm 1: Termup 2.0 and up is not compatible with iTerm 1. Install 1.3.1 by gem install termup -v=1.3.1

Installation

$ gem install termup

Note that you need to prepend sudo if you're using the OSX pre-installed Ruby.

Usage

Getting Started

Call the following command:

$ termup create myproject

This will create a new project at ~/.config/termup/myproject.yml. Edit the file:

$ termup edit myproject

And now you're good to go:

$ termup start myproject

YAML Syntax

# ~/.config/termup/myproject.yml
---
tabs:
  tab1:
    - cd ~/projects/foo
    - git status
    - subl .
  tab2:
    - mysql -u root
    - show databases;
  tab3:
    - cd ~/projects/foo
    - tail -f log/development.log
  tab4:
    - cd ~/projects/foo
    - autotest
options:
  iterm:
    width: 2
    height: 2

Tabs can contain a single command, or YAML arrays to execute multiple commands.

Shortcut

Commands have a shortcut for even fewer keystrokes.

$ termup s myproject

That's equivalent to termup start myproject.

iTerm 2 Split Pane Support

There are two options to deal with split panes on iTerm 2: --iterm_basic and --iterm_advanced

--iterm_basic

termup create myproject --iterm_basic

This will generate additional options in the config file:

options:
  iterm:
    width: 2
    height: 2

The setting above will generate four panes in the following layout.

#################
#       #       #
#   1   #   3   #
#       #       #
#################
#       #       #
#   2   #   4   #
#       #       #
#################

--iterm_advanced

termup create myproject --iterm_advanced

This will generate a config file in an advanced format:

# COMMENT OF SCRIPT HERE
---
tabs:
  pane1:
    commands:
      - echo pane1
    layout:
      - split_vertically
  pane2:
    commands:
      - echo pane2
    layout:
      - split_horizontally
  pane3:
    commands:
      - echo pane3
    layout:
      - split_horizontally
  pane4:
    commands:
      - echo pane4

The setting above will generate four panes in the following layout.

#################
#       #       #
#       #   2   #
#       #       #
#       #########
#       #       #
#   1   #   3   #
#       #       #
#       #########
#       #       #
#       #   4   #
#       #       #
#################

Available layout commands:

new_tab
close_tab
goto_previous_tab
goto_next_tab
goto_previous_pane
goto_next_pane
split_vertically
split_horizontally
go_left
go_right
go_down
go_up