Re: Open Terminal in Current Directory

Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2026-04-12 22:44, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>> I am going through my init.el and found this function
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (defun site/open-xterm ()
>>   "Start an Xterm process."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let ((term (cond ((executable-find "gnome-terminal")
>>                      "gnome-terminal")
>>                     ((executable-find "xterm")
>>                      "xterm")
>>                     ((error "Couldn't find a terminal emulator")))))
>>     (start-process "*xterm*" nil term)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> Does anyone have a more portable solution, where I don't have to
>> list
>> all possible kinds of terminal emulators?
>
> (defun site/open-terminal ()
>   "Launch a terminal emulator using an exhaustively overkill detection
>   method.

This is exactly what I was trying to avoid...  Or at the very least
reduce the number of terminal emulators to a list of portable names.  I
thought that debian had something like "generic-terminal" or something
along those lines.