Terminals

Inside Skink: Ctrl+E, then help terminals.

Terminal tabs are real terminal emulators (colours, mouse, full-screen programs), so any CLI runs unchanged, AI ones included: :term claude.

| Key | Does | |---|---| | F12 | switch between the file and your terminal tab | | Shift+F12 | another terminal tab | | F11 | close the terminal tab | | Alt+T | a shell docked along the bottom | | Shift+F11 | the terminal's history in a tab (:scrollback) | | Shift+F2 / Shift+F3 | previous / next shell prompt | | Shift+F4 | select the last command's output (:scrollback last) | | Ctrl-click | open a file:line[:col] |

In a terminal tab every key goes to the program, except Alt+1…9 and the keys bound to tab actions (ToggleTerminal, NewTerminal, CloseTerminal, ToggleTree, ToggleSidebar, PreviousTab, NextTab), which bindings.json can change. A finished terminal closes on any key. Tabs show the title the program sets.

In the history tab Ctrl+F searches, Shift+arrows select, Ctrl+C copies and Enter on a file:line opens it.

## Shell integration

Skink adds prompt marks (OSC 133) to the bash, zsh, fish and PowerShell it starts. Your own rc files (oh-my-zsh, starship, …) load first and unchanged, and are never edited. The marks power prompt jumps, output selection and exact output for Alt+Shift+E. Off with "terminal.shellintegration": false; without marks Alt+Shift+E guesses the last command from the screen.

## Inside EveryAI

Skink finds the host through SKINK_HOST_URL and SKINK_HOST_TOKEN and hands language servers and agents to it; the status line says "EveryAI". The prompt box and agent panel then use EveryAI's models.

See also: [Tasks](tasks) · [Skink as your $EDITOR](editor)