tdrop VS emacs-term-toggle

tdrop is wm agnostic (I use it in dwm), very easy to set up and does the same thing.

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Let us start with the terminal itself. Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It doesn't have much in terms of a UI, and hence all configurations are done through YAML files. I don't use it as my primary terminal as I love Yakuake too much for all its cool features. We can get most of those features (tabs, split panes, dropdown mode) using tmux and tdrop if really needed. I use Alacrity when I need speed and GPU acceleration. There is an excellent tutorial on using Alacritty with tmux.

tdrop is de/wm agnostic and can make most terminals a drop down terminal.

I've been using tdrop for about a year and not knowing how to get rid of the green bar it put at the bottom. Well, now that's fixed and I've learned to use tmux to switch between newsboat, cmus, lf, etc. -TY!

You can also use tdrop to turn any terminal into a dropdown terminal

So it's pretty clear what happens and why. I'm using tdrop, a little tool that allows you to use any terminal emulator as a drop-down terminal/scratchpad. Calling tdrop terminal with some parameters will show a terminal window, calling it again will hide it. I've bound this to a key, let's say HOTKEY.

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For the background story: I have modified an old Emacs library to toggle to a shell in the current working directory, which I am very happy with since it is very small (~100 sloc) and very predictable (always below the buffer I edit). Now, I just want to add a small touch for working with ielm: when I toggle ielm, I wish to set its working buffer to the buffer I edit. Since I will call this in ielm-mode-hook, I need to know the last buffer I was editing, i.e. "the buffer I came from".

You can try this terminal toggle. Put eshell or term on a key, term-toggle-eshell or term-toggle-term and you can press that key to toggle ehsell/term on or off as you need it.

Or term-toggle, which despite the name has nothing to do with eshell-roggle 😀. It can toggle all of available "terms" in Emacs, if someone wants to add support for vterm I am happy to get a PR.

You can also try this little package if you need to fast pop-iup and dissmiss a term/eshell/ansi-term/ielm

There seems to be [equake](https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake) which opens a whole frame for the console. And [emacs-term-toggle](https://github.com/amno1/emacs-term-toggle), but this doesn't support vterm.

I have used for many years something called term-toggle.el, and I have recently rebuilt it to better suit my (minimalistic) need: https://github.com/amno1/emacs-term-toggle. Better shell seems to do a similar thing, not really the same though. I have sudo-open-file since before, which is enough for my needs when I need to edit some config script on my system.