Feature Request: Please add support for PowerShell terminal for windows, at least as option.

[debajyoti1990]

PowerShell is a proper terminal, many ways better than cmd.exe. Only downside is, it is slightly slower compared to win32 based cmd.exe as PowerShell is built on .NET. By the way, VScode and lapce also implement PowerShell as default terminal.

[SpartanJ]

Oh, yes. It is planned. It is already supported but I wanted to be easily configurable from the editor. It's quite simple to add, I might add it for the next version. Meanwhile to use PowerShell you just need to define the SHELL global environment variable with the value "powershell.exe". ecode reads SHELL from the environment to execute it, if nothing is defined I set some for each OS by default. I already tried powershell and works just fine.

[SpartanJ]

New default shell configuration looks like (this is a Linux screenshot, you won't see powershell here hehe):

ecode will try to locate all the commonly used shells and offer the option to select one of them, but it also let you configure any custom shell.
Windows will now default powershell.

[debajyoti1990]

I used Linux desktop in engineering school, so figured that by seeing /usr.. 😄. Can we configure custom keybinding for opening terminal in vsplit and to toggle between editor and terminal ?

[SpartanJ]

yes, there are several key bindings related to that, open the keybindings at Edit -> Key Bindings, these are the defaults:

mod+alt+j=switch-to-previous-split
mod+alt+l=switch-to-next-split
mod+shift+alt+i=terminal-split-top
mod+shift+alt+j=terminal-split-left
mod+shift+alt+k=terminal-split-bottom
mod+shift+alt+l=terminal-split-right
mod+shift+alt+s=terminal-split-swap
shift+alt+i=split-top
shift+alt+j=split-left
shift+alt+k=split-bottom
shift+alt+l=split-right
shift+alt+s=split-swap

terminal-split- commands open a new terminal in the split. I usually create a new terminal in a split and switch focus between splits with mod+alt+j and l (mod is "modifier key", control key in Windows).