Ability to contribute context menu entries for Terminal

[usernamehw]

I want to contribute menu items for Terminal. Doesn't look like it's possible now:

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#contributes.menus

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[Tyriar]

I guess terminal/context makes sense given the other keys

[Tyriar]

Adding to October to discuss, this won't be implemented in October.

[Tyriar]

Brought up in API sync today, approved to go ahead for a proposed API using terminal/context and passing the underlying Terminal object to the callback.

[nickyhajal]

Looking forward to using this for an extension, thanks for moving it forward.

Might it be possible to include context menu contribution points for problems/context, output/context, debug-console/context, etc?

Also, is support for passing or accessing currently selected text in those views possible?

[Tyriar]

Might it be possible to include context menu contribution points for

That would need to be separate feature requests.

Also, is support for passing or accessing currently selected text in those views possible?

That's not the current thinking. Could be useful though...

[Kingwl]

I'd like to work on this.

[Tyriar]

@Kingwl sounds good 👍 I haven't actually dealt with adding something like this yet so I would search the codebase for similar context menu contributions for other components like the explorer.

[gar1t]

I would add, also, that menu support ought to be available for termina/title to provide more visibility into actions/commands available for a terminal session. Context menus are great but my concern is that since this would be new functionality, users might not have any idea that there are useful functions hiding in the already pretty full context menus. Having menus visible in the title area would be important I think.

+1 to extend this to output, problem, etc. as per @nickyhajal's suggestion.

My extension makes extensive use of system commands via the terminal that tie user work via editors to a CLI based program. A particular terminal is associated with a particular operation/goal, which may have various other VS Code commands associated with it. There's currently no decent way to tie commands to that terminal/operation. It seems that the menu facility that's widely available in other areas (editors, explorer, source code, etc.) is painfully missing for terminals, output, problems, etc.

[Tyriar]

This is done and TPI is created, so moving this to next iteration