multi-ghostel is a small Emacs package that ports the parts of multi-vterm I actually use to ghostel . Most of multi-vterm already ships with ghostel, so this only adds what is missing.

What it adds

• Directory-scoped reuse: multi-ghostel-cwd keys off default-directory (following cd via OSC 7), so each directory gets one reusable terminal.
• An always-new command: multi-ghostel starts a fresh session, matching multi-vterm’s behaviour instead of reusing ghostel’s buffer.
• A dedicated window: toggle, open, close and focus a single terminal window without killing the shell running in it.

Why a separate package

ghostel is a vterm alternative built on the same idea (a real terminal inside Emacs). Rather than fork either project, this package composes the existing ghostel primitives with the multi-vterm workflow: one command to reuse a terminal per project, one to force a new one, and one to get a scratch terminal out of the way and back.

Install

Emacs 29 ships package-vc-install:

(package-vc-install "https://github.com/bismigel/multi-ghostel")

Or with use-package:

(use-package multi-ghostel
  :vc (:url "https://github.com/bismigel/multi-ghostel")
  :bind (("C-c t" . multi-ghostel-cwd)
         ("C-c T" . multi-ghostel)
         ("C-`"   . multi-ghostel-dedicated-toggle)))

The source and suggested keybindings live on GitHub .