Terminal tab title: Show "~" instead of $HOME

[jdanbrown]

I want to use "terminal.integrated.tabs.title": "${cwd}" to see the full path in the title of each terminal tab, but it gets visually really noisy because nearly every terminal tab title starts with my home dir, e.g.

• /Users/danb/.local/share/opencode
• /Users/danb/.local/share/opencode/snapshot/9c45fa85ce981595e864eb394465867df6de3383
• /Users/danb/tmp/a
• /Users/danb/tmp/b
• /Users/danb/tmp/c

It'd be more usable and less noisy if vscode instead automatically replaced ^$HOME/ with ~, like this:

• ~/.local/share/opencode
• ~/.local/share/opencode/snapshot/9c45fa85ce981595e864eb394465867df6de3383
• ~/tmp/a
• ~/tmp/b
• ~/tmp/c

I don't see a way to do it in my settings.json, so I think vscode would need to do this substitution internally for the ${cwd} variable?

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/appearance

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[jdanbrown]

Hmm, I don't think this is the kind of thing that 20 users are going to find and upvote. I think it's just a simple QOL feature that users will unknowingly appreciate if it's there, and quietly be annoyed by if it's not.

So I went ahead and made a PR, since the change seemed pretty isolated and straightforward:

• Terminal tab title: Show "~" instead of "$HOME" #275378

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[jdanbrown]

Hi bot, I already made a PR seven weeks ago! Can someone please review it? It's pretty simple even.

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