Provide a lightweight shell selector without changing default (ie. terminal profiles)

[tigerhawkvok]

• VSCode Version: 1.21.0
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a Powershell terminal
2. Split the terminal window
3. Try to open a WSL Ubuntu terminal

It'd be great to split the terminal types for different cases!

I imagine that if you pressed and held the "+" you could select other terminals on your system, or similar UI for this.

[stellirin]

Yes, yes, yes! I wanted this for a long time, I finally came to report this and saw this report.

An example workflow:

• docker-compose work is done in PowerShell
• git work is done in Bash

This is mostly since it's pretty painful right now to get the WSL docker engine to talk nicely to Docker on Windows. I read it'll be easier in Windows 1803.

However we also have to develop dual scripts for Windows/Unix environments. Opening them side-by-side in the editor, AND the relevant terminals side-by-side beneath them would be really cool.

[fabiospampinato]

I imagine that if you pressed and held the "+" you could select other terminals on your system, or similar UI for this.

"press and hold" isn't used anywhere else in the app, so maybe this should work just on click, or maybe on right click.

In the meantime you can kind of do this already with my Terminals Manager extension, support for split terminals is in the making.

[Tyriar]

Normally I close these issues off and point people to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tyriar.shell-launcher but I do hear this quite a bit, at least for Windows users, to have a dropdown appear when you click the + button. I'll keep this open to gather more feedback, I'm a little unsure how the flow would work right now what would happen when you hit ctrl+` or ctrl+shift+`, maybe launching a default terminal unless you hit the plus button with the mouse?

[tigerhawkvok]

I think that'd be the right behavior - most shortcuts should behave as is, but have an option to do something other than default in the UI

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[mittalyashu]

I want to use different terminal, based upon the work I am doing and there should be an option that which type of terminal you want to launch.

Rails

Git

Instead of providing single option for terminal ``"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe".

There should be an option for defining multiple terminal for different language:

{
"terminal": {
"git": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
"ruby": "C:\\Program Files\\ruby.exe",
"python": ...
}
}

[Tyriar]

The implementation of this will probably be relatively simple, I imagine another section in the dropdown that includes the profiles in between the current terminal processes and the select default shell entry:

Some thinking needs to be put into how profiles will be structured in settings, open to proposals (and PRs once we decide on a schema).

[MmAtBosch]

When will this small but awesome function get finally reality??
Please 🙏🏻

[Tyriar]

@ManuelMinkAtBOSCH it's a stretch goal for the next release 🚀

[LucaGabi]

Would you upvote this thicket as it's more clearly described ?

#118028

[IAmHopp]

Guys, I see we can pass args to the terminal profile we're adding. Would it be possible to eventually pass environment variables, such that I can open a terminal pre-prepared for a specific task or set of tasks I want to do?

(I tried achieving this using Tasks as well, but I need to keep a terminal open at the end, so I couldn't find a clean solution there either)

[Tyriar]

@IAmHopp 👍 created #120366

[pszlazak]

Guys, I see we can pass args to the terminal profile we're adding. Would it be possible to eventually pass environment variables, such that I can open a terminal pre-prepared for a specific task or set of tasks I want to do?

@IAmHopp - please check my comment in #120366.

[IAmHopp]

@pszlazak I think in the end we're suggesting the same thing.

[gotofritz]

This was a terrible idea - are you aware that some people use the terminal in column mode? Now that menu that I (and I suspect most users) will NEVER need takes up half the space .... and you don't even allow us to hide the pulldown and reclaim the space

Created a ticket for improving this
#121572

[Tyriar]

@gotofritz commented on that issue. To clarify, profiles (this issue) are the detected and configurable shells in the terminal dropdown (or the v button in the tabs view).