Add preference to turn off "recently used tasks"

[todddcls]

I'm use to using the arrow keys to quickly select which task I want to use. Now with the addition of this new feature, now the list is constantly changing order. Please provide a preference to turn this off.

[yvbeek]

Can I revive this feature-request?

It is kinda annoying when you only have 4 tasks that the list is in a different order every time you open it. For example in my Rails project it looks like this:

A simple setting to disable the recently used feature would be great.

[dbaeumer]

@Zyphrax a PR for this is welcome.

[praveentiru]

@dbaeumer I would like to build a PR for this issue. But, would need little guidance in terms of spec. I searched the Prefs and did not find any existing config for tasks other than ones in language extensions. I have a few questions for this. Where would stuff this Pref in preferences?

I believe suggestions section in Text Editor makes sense. Please advice.

[dbaeumer]

The settings should be named tasks.quickOpen.history and the value should be a number. If set yo zero no history is shown. If a number > 0 is provided is should be honored. Currently the number is hard coded.

[abhigyank]

@dbaeumer Hello, I understand that you mean to put the settings in Workbench-> Tasks-> QuickOpen: History` Is this correct?
Also could you help to look into which file I should update in order for the settings to reflect in the actual task list?

[dbaeumer]

Yes, tasks.quickOpen.history as a name is correct.

• the actual code is in task.contributions.ts
• the recently used list is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workbench/parts/tasks/browser/quickOpen.ts#L95
• the schema for the setting is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workbench/parts/tasks/electron-browser/jsonSchemaCommon.ts#L11

[praveentiru]

@kumarharsh Just wanted to check if this issue is closed with PR from you?

[kumarharsh]

Yes, it is. It's just pending merge by @dbaeumer.

[geajack]

Can we get this merged soon?

[dtwilliams10]

Is this issue still open to be worked or is it being merged?

[alexr00]

I will take a look at the existing PR for this and we'll see if we can get it merged for June :)

[alexr00]

Verification steps are the same as #80649. If that's verified, then so's this!