Tasks output only to terminal

[dwilliamson]

Issue Type: Bug

When migrating from tasks.json 0.1.0 to 2.0.0 my commands are now writing to the Terminal instead of the Output Panel.

I can't find a way to disable this behaviour: I lose native VSCode copy/paste popup and I'm limited to configuring terminals independently for each platform in non-obvious ways (e.g. disabling line wrapping is no longer a trivial problem).

Thanks!

VS Code version: Code 1.27.2 (f46c4c4, 2018-09-12T16:17:45.060Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17134

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Extensions (5)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
output-colorizer	IBM	0.1.2
terraform	mau	1.3.7
cpptools	ms-	0.19.0
Go	ms-	0.6.91
perforce	sle	3.1.0

[dbaeumer]

@dwilliamson this can't be control right now. Can you provide more information why outputting to the terminal doesn't work for you. You can still copy text using Ctrl+C

[dwilliamson]

Thanks for the response.

this can't be control right now

Sure, it can; I just keep my tasks at version 0.1.0.

My main issue is word wrap. Right now I just customise word wrap with:

"[Log]": {
"editor.wordWrap": "on"
}

That's it, across all 3 platforms and it works perfectly:

• Correct horizontal scrollbar.
• No weirdness/broken wraps with reflow when resizing the window.
• No per-platform terminal settings have to be configured in config outside of the VSCode ecosystem (which means I can commit settings to SCC repos).
• Some terminals don't disable word wrap and simply clip.

It's a much more complicated affair for a team that uses VSCode consistently across Windows/Linux/OSX.

I also lose smart auto scroll, where I can click on a line while the output panel is scrolling and have it freeze until the cursor is placed right at the end. This mimics the behaviour of Visual Studio's
that is far superior to most terminals which, again, function differently on each platform.

The copy/paste stuff is annoying but I can live with changes!

[dbaeumer]

@dwilliamson What I meant is that with task 2.0.0 you can't control whether its output will be in the output panel or the terminal.

I agree that you can still use tasks 0.1.0 but it will not receive new features. And we might remove it at some point in time in the future.

@Tyriar any comments / insights on the points related to the terminal here

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[dbaeumer]

@Tyriar can you please comment.

[alexr00]

@Tyriar, any insights on the terminal complaints here?

[Tyriar]

Correct horizontal scrollbar.

The terminal doesn't have a horizontal scrollbar by design

No weirdness/broken wraps with reflow when resizing the window.

This is a limitation on Windows unfortunately, it will be improved with #23688 but won't be that great on Windows unless we get changes from the Windows Console team.

No per-platform terminal settings have to be configured in config outside of the VSCode ecosystem (which means I can commit settings to SCC repos).

Not sure what this means?

I also lose smart auto scroll, where I can click on a line while the output panel is scrolling and have it freeze until the cursor is placed right at the end. This mimics the behaviour of Visual Studio's
that is far superior to most terminals which, again, function differently on each platform.

The terminal will freeze on that spot when you scroll up, until you hit a key (or until the line is trimmed off the top of the terminal). Not sure what smart auto scroll is.

I lose native VSCode copy/paste popup

We copy conhost's UX here by default on Windows, right click if there is a selection will copy the text and drop the selection, right click when there is no selection will paste. If you want to turn it off, add this setting:

"terminal.integrated.rightClickBehavior": "default"

[alexr00]

@dwilliamson does that info help you get what you want from the terminal? We gain a lot of functionality by using the terminal instead of output, so we don't have any plans to offer the output as an options. Instead, we'd rather make sure tasks in the terminal can support what people need.

[vscodebot]

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Happy Coding!