Sublime Text 4 Terminus - Multi Session Terminal Integrated In Panel View - sublimetext

Question

I'm using Sublime Text 4's Terminus package and trying to open more than one terminal session within Sublime's panel view.
In VSCode it looks like this:
The closest I can get is to open each session in a separate tab on grid layout, which works fine, but I get the minimap which is not desired, and also I loose the ability to toggle open & close as opposed to the panel:
After doing a bit of research & watching this video I see in the comments the following question & answer:
Q: is there any way to open several instances of Terminus in the panel?
I could open several instances of it in Tab View, but not in the bottom panel.
A: There is an argument you can use in the terminus commands named "panel"; that gives the created panel a name. If you don't provide it there's a default. Using a different panel name lets you create or toggle extra panels.
So I've been testing Terminus settings with that in mind but no luck so far.
Terminus key bindings:
{
"keys": ["ctrl+alt+p"],
"command": "toggle_terminus_panel",
"args": {
"panel": "git",
"cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"
}
}
With the above, terminal does open from panel but always with one session, if I add another key binding with a different panel name it still opens & closes the same session as the other key binding.
Tried also "command": "terminus_open" instead of "command": "toggle_terminus_panel", but doesn't work with panel as argument. Adding another panel name like the following does nothing either:
"args": {
"panel": "git",
"panel": "server",
}
Is this actually possible or what am I missing?

Answer 1

As noted in the comments on your question, if your goal is to have multiple panels open simultaneously each with a different visible name (i.e. a tabbed panel interface) that's not possible because currently Sublime supports only a single visible panel at a time.
However, if the goal is to have multiple panels that you call up via key bindings, that is indeed possible. What you tried doesn't work because the argument name is actually panel_name and not panel (sorry for the confusion; I've edited the comment on my video as well to reflect that).
So you can do something like this:
{ "keys": ["alt+`"], "command": "toggle_terminus_panel", "args": {
"panel_name": "first-panel"
}, },
{ "keys": ["shift+alt+`"], "command": "toggle_terminus_panel", "args": {
"panel_name": "other-panel"
}, },
The important consideration is that all key bindings need to include panel_name in them; if you don't provide the argument Terminus defaults to finding and opening the most recently active panel, whatever it happened to be.
Thus you could use a third binding if you always wanted to go to the most recent, if that is also interesting.
Note also that in your question you mentioned putting this in Terminus settings; the appropriate place is in your Key bindings (Preferences > Key Bindings).