[Feature]: toggle term without putting focus on it.

[Looooopy]

My use case:

I have a command to toggle all TUI on and off but not the open text buffers.
So say I have Nvim-tree and ToggleTerm I hide both and show both when I toggle.

But when I toggle the terminal interface on it automatically take over focus and put it self in insert mode in the terminal.
That is ok if I start a terminal and know I need to do something in the terminal, but not in this use case I would rather stay on the last focused window and let the me decide what to do.

So is there a way of turn this off I have not found any solution but maybe I missed it?

[ryanmsnyder]

I would like to know if this is possible as well. @Looooopy did you ever find a solution?

[akinsho]

This currently doesn't exist. There is an option to do this using TermExec go_back=true currently this doesn't apply to opening a terminal as far as I can remember. I don't have any bandwidth to add new features like this so if someone will like to contribute it please go ahead. Otherwise please no plus ones on this issue

[ryanmsnyder]

@Looooopy, I created a Telescope extension for managing Toggleterm terminals called toggleterm-manager. I also wanted the ability to toggle terminals open/closed (and other actions such as creating/renaming/deleting terminal buffers) without always focusing the terminal but in my case, I didn't want to necessarily leave the Telescope window. I know that's not exactly what you were looking for but you may be able to find a solution in one of the functions I wrote here.