A fully functional terminal emulator built on Tkinter library - perform all basic commands of a terminal

Under the hood it executes commands using Python's subprocess module and spawn as a thread. Pressing Ctrl-Cwill terminate current running command. Supports Unix shells (bash and C-Shell) and Window's Command Prompt (cmd.exe) commands.

• Compatible with Windows and Unix systems
• Return Code (RC) of previous run commands is shown at the bottom status bar
• Ctrl-C to kill current running process
• Ctrl-F to search; supports case sensitivity and regex searches
• UP and DOWN arrow keys to cycle between next and previous commands in history
• Unix-like tab completion on files and directories
• Handles multiline commands using caret character ^ or \

The Tkinter GUI library is built into Python, so no 3rd party library is required.

Requires at least Python version 3 and above.

Run standalone script simply with

$> python tkterm.py

The Terminal is implemented as a Frame widget and can be easily be integrated to other Tkinter application by

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
from tkterm import Terminal

root = tk.Tk()

terminal = Terminal(root)
terminal.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=True)

root.mainloop()

-TODO-

Long lines of command can be broken up using a caret. A caret at the line end appends the next line command with the current command. In Windows the caret is ^, and UNIX is \.

For multiline command to be considered there must be no trailing space after the caret, for example:

• $> ping ^ is considered
• $> ping ^ is not considered

$>> echo I ^
> have apple ^
> and banana
I have apple and banana