Command Shortcuts

[oncena]

Hello Windows Terminal Team Members, and may I add straight away that this app is now my go-to terminal of choice given its extraordinary customization capabilities. Now that you've done a great job with the user interface and also the customizations, I've got a suggestion that would target the ease of use for this amazing app. Let's call it "Command Shortcuts". It would basically be another drop-down menu but rather than launching pre-configured tabs, it would run pre-defined commands to automate certain tasks. I'll give you an example from my own workflow: Running ssh-start, ssh-add, and then performing login to a remote machine through ssh keys (especially those with a passphrase) requires at least three lines of commands. Call me lazy but it would be amazing to have these pre-defined shortcuts. Also bundling these shortcuts with tab configurations to be run at tab start, would be next-level.

[zadjii-msft]

You're in luck! We actually already support something like this, with the Command Palette:

I currently use it to do similar things as you've mentioned here, with the following actions:

        { "command": { "action": "splitPane", "split":"auto", "splitMode": "duplicate" }, "keys": [ "ctrl+alt+t" ] },

        { "command": { "action": "wt", "commandline": "new-tab --title OpenConsole cmd.exe /k #work 15 ; split-pane --title OpenConsole cmd.exe /k #work 15 ; split-pane -H cmd.exe /k media-commandline ; new-tab --title \"Symbols Script\" powershell dev\\symbols.ps1 ; new-tab -p \"Ubuntu 18.04\" ; new-tab -p \"microsoft/Terminal\" ; sp -V -p \"microsoft/Terminal\" ; sp -H -p \"microsoft/Terminal\" ; focus-tab -t 0" }, "name": "Good Morning" },

        { "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "bx\r" }, "keys":"ctrl+b", "name": "Build project", "icon": "🛠"},
        { "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "bx & #do 10 & wtd\r" }, "keys":"ctrl+alt+b", "name": "Build & deploy TerminalApp", "icon": "🏗"},
        { "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "vf\rgit status\r" }, "keys":"ctrl+g", "name": "git status", "icon": "🌿"},

the "Good Morning" command opens a whole bunch of tabs and splits in the current window. The "Build..." commands can be used to run a command quickly in the terminal by sending those keys as input.

As far as running those at start, you're looking for #756

/dup #5400

[ghost]

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[krave1986]

@zadjii-msft Hi, I happend to see your answers here. I would like to have some references about \r in sendInput actions like:
{ "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "bx\r" }, "keys":"ctrl+b", "name": "Build project", "icon": "🛠"},
I am currently using \u000d for return in sendInput which is ASCII code.