TermNew: open Neovim terminal in a new window or tab

Important

After 7 years since introducing the :terminal command, Neovim finally introduced a simple native way of opening terminals in other windows. This plugin is no longer needed.

Using Neovim's built-in command :terminal it's impossible to open a terminal in a new window or tab. The only way to do that is to use forms that are rather cumbersome to type, for example: split term://$SHELL.

This plugin provides a simple command that normally opens a terminal in a split window, accepting standard modifiers that change how the window is opened.

Usage

:TermNew [COMMANDLINE]...

By itself, :TermNew will open a split window with the command in $SHELL (if set) or &shell.

To open a different program in the terminal, pass it as an argument to :TermNew. All arguments are passed to the termopen() call. For example, :TermNew zsh will open a terminal with zsh shell.

:TermNewShellInDir [DIRECTORY]

Opens a new shell (the same way as :TermNew without arguments) in working directory given as argument.