Emacs lisp code to open lots of multi-terminals

Question

When I start working on my project, I need to run lots of processes. Currently, I have to launch each process in a manual way:

M-x multi-term RET
M-x rename-buffer RET *some-name* RET
cd ~/foo/bar/
python ./task.py

How to write a code on Emacs lisp that does the following steps:

opens new multi-term buffer;
renames it (I know the title I'd like to hardcode it for each process);
runs one or two commands inside terminal

This isn't a comprehensive answer, so I'll add it as a comment. You might be interested in the [`prodigy.el` package](https://github.com/rejeep/prodigy.el), a tool to "manage external services from within Emacs". — ChrisGPT was on strike, Jan 21 '15 at 13:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '15 at 11:44

You can start from this template:

(defun python-erica ()
  (interactive)
  (let* ((default-directory "~/")
         (proc (get-buffer-process
                (ansi-term "/usr/bin/ipython" "erica"))))
    (term-send-string
     proc
     (concat "import sys\n"))))

You can change:

function name
default dir
python executable
term buffer name
initial commands

Emacs lisp code to open lots of multi-terminals

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