Request feature "Integrated terminal"

[kkdai]

It would be great if vscode has integrated terminal feature refer vim or atom https://atom.io/packages/term3

I saw this suggestion pending in uservoice(https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7752357-integrated-terminal) and repost here since it has specific repo

[meritozh]

+1.
term3 can't support zsh well, and it will make atom slowly. Hope vscode can solve it.

[Alsmile]

+1

[Alsmile]

+1

[codewithtyler]

+1

[joaomoreno]

Personally I think this is a bad idea. Making the editor a kitchen sink is how we will make it slow and bloated. Besides, the amount of work necessary to get on par with just the basic features of excellent terminals out there (e.g. iTerm2, ConEmu) would be huge.

I know not everyone runs OS X but check out my setup below. I'm using El Capitan's full screen features to place VS Code side by side with iTerm2. I am super happy with it.

[meritozh]

@joaomoreno but some people want coding, and just use CLT when deploy app. Maybe you can make a extension like term3, then the native version of VSCode won't run slowly.

[joaomoreno]

That is an opportunity for an extension: deployment commands!

[meritozh]

Yes, you're right. By the way, why i can't search in extension market?

[ashw1984]

+1

[animator013]

+1

[adrian-castravete]

👍

[nhack]

is there an extension that offers a terminal? anyhow +1

[edgariscoding]

+1

[TemaSM]

+1 For built in or as extension

[maximpashuk]

+1 also

[Widcket]

+1 for built in, as in the CodeRunner mac app

[jagreehal]

+1

[leonardosnt]

+1

[aaronoah]

Yah, definitely need it! +1

[opsnull]

+1

[rosskhanas]

+1

[vanshady]

+1

[pflannery]

As an extension I agree but not integrated in to the editor itself.
Ultimately I would like to see a terminal extension that gives multi terminal capabilities like web storm does.

I think the goal should be to get vscode extensible enough that someone can do extensions like this.
i.e. able to add\extend panels with tabs\sidebars etc..

I find ctrl+shift+c is doing the job ok for now (minus the part that I cant choose which terminal program it launches)

[stylemistake]

I find ctrl+shift+c is doing the job ok for now (minus the part that I cant choose which terminal program it launches)

@pflannery That's a problem too, and I think it should be solved in first place. In Xfce there is no gnome-terminal, and I could be probably using better terminals even on Windows/OSX (hypothetically), so having a config option to select which terminal I want to launch would be good enough for me. Built-in terminal = reinventing the wheel.

[pflannery]

@stylemistake your right, basic terminal launching should work on linux. Could be worth raising an separate issue if not already done so.
I have a PR for using better terminals but it's only for windows so far. PR #3495.

[ghost]

+1

[catdadcode]

I'm actually fine with the terminal being separate by default. How hard would it be to make an extension that adds this though? That would be awesome.

[Tyriar]

@whitecolor F1, type "settings", enter should open your user settings.json file, you add it there.

[wclr]

Hm I added setting, mark use legacy terminal in cmd settings.

I press ctrl+ but it just jumps next tab. An I have noview` menu at all in the UI.

[Tyriar]

@whitecolor it will land in stable in early June and in the Insiders build in a few days.

[wclr]

ok, will it support multiple terminals per opened project?

[Tyriar]

@whitecolor only a single terminal per vscode windows in Stable, #6458 tracks multiple terminals.

[AlexJuca]

This feature should definitely be built. I was debugging some ruby code and I had to interact with the terminal to enter some input that the program needs and bam! No terminal for me to interact with.

[Tyriar]

After trying again on Windows 10 with the new cmd, it seems to work just fine. As such I think I'll make the default %COMSPEC% which points at cmd by default. This makes it consistent with the open in (external) terminal command. #6886

[builden]

in chinese system show confusiton code

Version 1.2.0 insider

[Tyriar]

@builden What does it show when you run the same command in the native terminal outside of vscode?

[builden]

@Tyriar

[Tyriar]

@builden thanks, looks like the CJK chars are stacked on top of each other. Looks like it was just filed here #7036

[builden]

@Tyriar Great
have another question:
{ "key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal" },
this shortcut is invalidation

[Tyriar]

@builden what keyboard layout are you using?

[builden]

@Tyriar like this

[Tyriar]

@builden So the key next to 1 doesn't work? Works from the testing I've done on Mac/Windows/Linux using US keyboard layout (which seems to be the same).

[builden]

@Tyriar i change shortcut string can work fine

[builden]

@Tyriar I have find the reason, ctrl+` have used by other application

[Tyriar]

@builden was it cmder that's using the keybinding?

[builden]

@Tyriar It's my Chinese input application "QQ Pinyin"

[Tyriar]

@builden ah, I think that's pretty command for keybindings to break when an IME is active.

[builden]

@Tyriar I have closed the IME keybinding, but another person is hard to find which app have binded the command

[willin]

@Tyriar how to use in os x

{ "key": "ctrl+shift+t",          "command": "launcher.terminal" }

no use

[builden]

@Tyriar In Windows, I can't copy string from terminal page, I think this feature is necessary

[Tyriar]

@willin try this:

{ "key": "ctrl+shift+t", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal" },

@builden polishing the copy and paste experience is planned for the June release #6451

[Tyriar]

Thanks everyone for your contributions! I'm going to lock the conversation to prevent pinging all the participants for smaller issues. If you find any other problems please check out the existing issue list and create a new one if necessary.

[Tyriar]

See #7302 (comment) for the proposed default keybindings used by the terminal.

[Tyriar]

You can see a glimpse of what's coming in v1.3.0 in the June test plan: #8222