workbench.startupEditor should support opening a terminal in editor area

[ghost]

I use VS Code as my primary terminal emulator. The first thing I do when opening it is usually to run the workbench.action.createTerminalEditor command so that I can start navigating around, and then using code . to open a project. It would be great if the workbench.startupEditor supported opening a terminal in the editor area.

[ghost]

FWIW if this wouldn't be too involved I'd be happy to open a PR if you could provide a few pointers to the relevant parts of the code to wire together.

[Tyriar]

I think this makes sense, moving to @lramos15 as the owner of getting started

[Tyriar]

fyi @meganrogge

[lramos15]

@Tyriar Wouldn't you just add terminals to the New File... menu? semantically it might be weird so maybe it should be renamed to New...

[Tyriar]

Feels really weird to have in the New File menu and renaming that just for this would make that action more ambiguous

[lramos15]

Feels really weird to have in the New File menu and renaming that just for this would make that action more ambiguous

Otherwise it becomes a completely separate entry no?

• New File...
• New Terminal in Editor area.

Just feels very specific

[Tyriar]

@lramos15 can we not have it as a startup editor option and not have it in the file menu? There's already the Terminal menu for that

[lramos15]

@Tyriar Sorry misread the issue and thought this was talking about the getting started startup editor that was default. Yes we can do this

[lramos15]

@Tyriar Going to need help from the terminal side of things here. I have created de17d3c but it does not open a terminal due to the fact that you cannot pass in a "untitled" terminal and have one created. I tried to make an arbitrary resource but no terminal is opened

[sagebind]

Just like to add that this would also be very useful to me as well. Makes opening a new window with a ready terminal just one click by launching VS Code with no workspace. Like the user who opened the issue, I tend to open workspaces using the code command from a terminal more often than any other method of opening workspaces, simply because I operate out of the terminal a lot just as a default.

Another benefit is that it seems like it just increases the consistency of startupEditor to support something like this.

[Tyriar]

Going to need help from the terminal side of things here. I have created de17d3c but it does not open a terminal due to the fact that you cannot pass in a "untitled" terminal and have one created. I tried to make an arbitrary resource but no terminal is opened

I think this can be solved by deferring to the create terminal in editor area command instead of trying to create a URI. Adjusting assignees...