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Make Features/Shortcuts More Visible #9181

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opticyclic opened this issue Feb 15, 2021 · 3 comments
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Make Features/Shortcuts More Visible #9181

opticyclic opened this issue Feb 15, 2021 · 3 comments
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Area-Settings UI Anything specific to the SUI Area-Settings Issues related to settings and customizability, for console or terminal Issue-Question For questions or discussion Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Answered Related to questions that have been answered

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Description of the current difficulty

I accidentally pressed Alt-Shift-D thinking it would open the Settings UI (currently in preview).
I had previously put the recommended value in the settings.json at the bottom so a quick glance at the last value showed this shortcut.
Obviously this is wrong as it is the shortcut to split the pane; but I couldn't work out what was correct nor how to close the split pane.
I opened the settings.json again to look for the correct value to open the settings ui when I coincidentally saw // To learn more about panes, visit https://aka.ms/terminal-panes

Scrolling to the end of that web page I found the way to close the pane.

This is quite a cumbersome way to work out how to use the application.

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Add an easier way to find out how to use the application within the application rather than having to open a browser and read a large page of documentation.

Suggestions:

  • Add a context menu in the terminal window
  • Add a context menu in the tab
  • Add a keyboard shortcut window

An equivalent of the last option in VSCode is:

File - Preferences - Keyboard shortcuts
@opticyclic opticyclic added the Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. label Feb 15, 2021
@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Feb 15, 2021
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Big picture, the plan is just to have the Settings UI enabled by default, and have the keybindings all listed in there. So when you click on the settings button, you'll just get the Settings UI.

We've also already got:

Sound good?

@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added Area-Settings Issues related to settings and customizability, for console or terminal Area-Settings UI Anything specific to the SUI Issue-Question For questions or discussion Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Answered Related to questions that have been answered and removed Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. labels Feb 16, 2021
@ghost ghost removed the Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements label Feb 16, 2021
@opticyclic
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Sounds good.
I'm not sure how you managed to find those when I couldn't when I searched for them.

Its probably due to the wrong search terms.

@zadjii-msft
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Probably some combination of:

  • Github issue search is pretty awful
  • I work 40 hours a week in this repo, so I have a pretty good recollection of what things we're already tracking ☺️

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