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[PATCH] term: Add 'term-other-window' command

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From: ERIC Frederickson <ericfrederickson68 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: per <at> bothner.com, dann <at> ics.uci.edu
Subject: [PATCH] term: Add 'term-other-window' command
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:41:50 -0500

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Hello everyone,

The patch attached to this message adds a command to lisp/term.el called
'term-other-window', which is a sibling command to 'term' but which
opens the *terminal* buffer in another window.

I think that the functionality of having a terminal emulator pop to
another window can be extremely useful to those who use a terminal
emulator within their text editor, and would hence be a great thing to
ship with Emacs's built-in 'term' package. Additionally, I think that
this addition would be especially useful to people coming to Emacs from
other text/code editing environments such as VS Code, wherein the
"pop-up terminal" / "split terminal" workflow is very widely used and is
seen as standard.

If this patch is well received, I'd like to follow it up by sending an
RFC patch to emacs-devel <at> gnu.org proposing to bind this new command to
"C-x 4 t", as I think that having 'term-other-window' bound to a key by
default would make pop-up terminal users feel very comfortable on an
out-of-the-box Emacs installation.

Note: I'm currently waiting on a response for my FSF copyright
assignment, so if someone would like to install this patch, please ask
me to confirm that my assignment has been completed before installing.

Thank you,
--
Eric Frederickson
https://emfred.com

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