Input Problems with Interactive Terminal

[tsoud]

Issue Type: Bug

Typing directly into the Python interactive terminal is buggy. This seems to be an issue in the latest (October 2020) release since it began immediately after the update.

Expected result: You type something into the interactive terminal input cell and characters appear...

Actual result: You type into the interactive terminal and nothing happens. Usually, you can start typing after clicking the cursor a few times but many times the terminal input cell does not respond at all requiring a restart.

Extension version: 2020.10.332292344
VS Code version: Code 1.51.0 (fcac248b077b55bae4ba5bab613fd6e9156c2f0c, 2020-11-05T18:16:10.374Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.4.0-52-generic

System Info

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[eioe]

I experience the same since the last update. Interestingly, after restarting VSC it would work for 2-3 commands and then the terminal becomes unresponsive. That's very painful.

Info:
Extension version: v2020.10.332292344
VSC version: 1.51.0 (user setup)
Commit: fcac248b077b55bae4ba5bab613fd6e9156c2f0c
Date: 2020-11-05T18:18:23.642Z
Electron: 9.3.3
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363 (Windows 10)

[jiaguo1000]

Same problem!

VSC:
Version: 1.51.0
Commit: fcac248b077b55bae4ba5bab613fd6e9156c2f0c
Date: 2020-11-05T18:14:40.758Z (5 days ago)
Electron: 9.3.3
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 19.6.0

[ihnorton]

Click-dragging the "Python Interactive" tab and moving it to a new split position (eg side by side or the reverse) seems to fix the problem temporarily :/

Version: 1.51.1
Commit: e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f
Date: 2020-11-11T01:11:34.018Z
Electron: 9.3.3
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0

[rboyes]

Same issue here

Version: 1.51.1 (user setup)
Commit: e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f
Date: 2020-11-10T23:34:32.027Z
Electron: 9.3.3
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

[IanMatthewHuff]

Hey everyone. Just wanted to comment to thank folks for reporting this issue. I'm able to repro this as well, and I'm looking into it. Not fully sure on the cause yet as the repro is (at least for me) very sporadic for when it happens.

[tsoud]

@IanMatthewHuff thanks for taking this on! In my case it's sporadic but frequent, and especially noticeable when switching back and forth between the editor and interactive window.

Additional note: I just updated from 1.51.0 to 1.51.1 (e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f) and the issue persists.

[tsoud]

Another update:
When the prompt in the interactive window won't accept input, I noticed that using Ctrl '+' followed by Ctrl '-' (i.e. zooming in and zooming back out) on my Linux system fixes it temporarily.
This is the same workaround I use when the text in my VSCode terminal window disappears every now and then.

[GusHebblewhite]

+1 for this issue

Version: 1.51.1 (user setup)
Commit: e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f
Date: 2020-11-10T23:34:32.027Z
Electron: 9.3.3
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041

[azz147]

Press ctrl+B can temporarily fix this on windows(and also on wsl2), but will happen again very soon,

[janosh]

The suggestions by @ihnorton to drag the interactive window to a new editor group and by @tsoud zooming in and out (even faster) are both working as temporary fixes. Thanks for that!

[greazer]

Lots of dupes being entered for this issue, so marking as high-priority.

[rchiodo]

If I click back and forth between the python editor and the interactive window a bunch, it seems to repro every time. Might be related to our focus tracking.

[rchiodo]

Root cause looks to be that the body of the interactive window has focus when the monaco editor thinks it does. So when we tell the monaco editor to take focus it doesn't.

Not sure yet what is stealing focus away for the body yet.

[rchiodo]

Seems like the VS code webview code is stealing focus. The activate message we send can interfere with this focus. IF we don't use this activate the IW won't lock up (although then it won't get focus unless you click on it).

[IanMatthewHuff]

Validated based on our bug bash testing.

[bk8190]

azz147 solution of pressing ctrl-B works for me - it temporarily fixes the problem on Windows and is easier than moving the window to a new pane

[thanosgatos]

I am experiencing the same thing. I was about to create a new issue, but I saw all the late ones have been closed as duplicates. This is still an issue that occurs every few minutes. It has actually been getting worse. It's becoming a blocker. Is there still no solution to this?

[rchiodo]

I am experiencing the same thing. I was about to create a new issue, but I saw all the late ones have been closed as duplicates. This is still an issue that occurs every few minutes. It has actually been getting worse. It's becoming a blocker. Is there still no solution to this?

@thanosgatos What is your extension version? This should have been fixed already.