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Opening the vim terminal using :term, creates a horizontal split with the terminal placed at the top half of the window. Is there a way to open the terminal at the bottom half instead?
I know I can use set splitbelow to make all horizontal splits open below the current one. However, I only want the set splitbelow behaviour to apply when opening :term. I want all other horizontal splits to open above as usual.
Use :belowright:
:belowright terminal
Or, more succinctly:
:bel term
This command is a modifier and affects the command run right after it.
(Another useful modifier here is :vertical, to split vertically instead.)
set splitbelow that you can add to your vimrc, but that will affect any splits, not just the :terminal.
cnoremap term bel term to your .vimrc to permanently remap :term to :bel term. If you do that and find yourself wanting to type just term in the command line, you can pause for a moment after typing the t or the e to get Vim to stop looking at it as a potential start to the remap.
splitsplits the screen,splitbelowsplits the current screen putting it below,nosplitbelowmeans it's not okay to split the current screen putting it below If the split family refers to the current screen, this is the logic