For months I have been using Git Bash as my default terminal. Upon start up it loads 1 terminal plus any additional terminals as defined in my "terminals.json" file using the "Terminals Manager" extension. Everything has been working fine up until today, when I opened vscode up and it launched powershell instead of Git Bash for all my terminals. I have restarted vscode, and also restarted my pc but that did not help.
As mentioned above it is my default profile:
And here are my settings:
Also btw I can still run bash on vscode and it works just fine, however it won't run on start up anymore.
Any idea what is happening?
The vim version has a ++close option that automatically closes the terminal when the job terminates, but since the NeoVim terminal came first it doesn't have that feature.
I need this because i am trying to run programs directly from vim, but i regularly make
curses applications which the popup window you get from :!python % can't handle, so i need the terminal window.
I am using NeoVim on arch linux if that's relevant.
Lately, after I have been using VSCode for some time, opening and closing it repeatedly, I was surprised to see, in Process Explorer, a lot of wsl.exe processes. As it looks, 4 or 5 processes were started by VSCode each time I opened it, but were not terminating when I was closing VSCode, so I ended up with a lot of them (there are only 5 in the image, but actually there were several dozens).
I think this has something to do with the following dialog box I see (almost?) every time I open VSCode
(which I was just closing since I am not interested to install these extensions).
Does someone know how to disable the launching of these processes? I had a Docker extension which I uninstalled, but this behavior persists.
Ok, so the culprit is not this something which launches the dialog box (I still see it), but it appears to be the following setting (when checked)
After unchecking it, I don't see now any wsl.exe processes launched when I start VSCode.
When I select RUN for my PowerShell script it executes in my "Integrated PowerShell Console" which is running PowerShell 7.x.
Some of my scripts use commands that are not available in PS7 (yet?) but works in PS5.
I have a second Terminal running in VSCode running PS5 and I can paste the script there and it works.
How can I switch the functionality of RUN (F5) to execute the script in my second terminal window?
Thank you Shivam Jha for the link.
I tried to map F5 to "workbench.action.terminal.runActiveFile: Run the active file in the terminal instance." and that works except it can only run code from files, not code just entered in the editor and not yet saved.
The solution then is to have F5 mapped to workbench.action.debug.run and CTRL+F5 mapped to workbench.action.terminal.runActiveFile.
This way I can have several PowerShell terminals active and use CTRL+F5 to run the active file in any of them.
This is just a guess, untested, but to me, it seems promising.
Open two instances of vscode, open the same folder in both, and open the two different terminals, one in each instance. If it still takes the default terminal even if you open another one in advance, try running in interactive window. Also check whether running just a selection (then just select the whole file) might influence the chosen output terminal.
My VS code terminal was working fine, until one day when I tried to work on a project, that was still open in VS code, my terminal didn't allow me to type any commands. I couldn't type anything. This is the screen that I get.
Okay, for those of you struggling with the same problem, I've managed to solve it by clicking on the drop-down menu that says powershell and changing it to cmd.
this happened to me and simply
close vs code
right click on it
run as administrator
open the terminal and it will work
this problem happened when I changed the default path of CMD
For me, I tried using Powershell/CMD/Bash and I was having errors/blank terminal. I found typing echo hello and pressing CTRL + C made it appear. So in fact, everything was working, my terminal was just blank/glitched out, but was really accepting input.
I had a similar issue when running ionic serve command which runs the development server on the localhost. I paid attention after executing the command above, and it said:
Use Ctrl+C to quit this process
Pressing Ctrl+C then displays:
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?
Type Y or y
then the command prompt is shown again!
Here is a sample terminal window - trimmed for brevity:
For who has this problem using React. This happens when you start a live version using npm start. The terminal that handles the live version of the app cannot be used for anything else.
So to continue using the terminal you need to open a new terminal to use in parallel. To do so just click on the plus icon in the top right corner of the terminal panel then choose the "Power Shell" option. This will open a new terminal without restarting visual studio.
In Mac, when working with Python, this helped me: instead of clicking on the "Run Code" option, click on "Run Python file", in the right corner.
For Ubuntu users this is solved by this solution:
File -> Preferences -> Setting -> Features -> Terminal -> Inherit Env
I found two vscode on my desktop, I opened the other one and it worked. Looks like I updated it but the older one didn't disappear.
If typing Ctrl+C can help to get out of this frozen state, that will be easier to do with VSCode 1.64 (Jan. 2022)
The terminal can type the answer for you.
Terminal -- Auto-reply
The terminal is now able to automatically reply when a specific sequences of characters is received.
A good example of where this is useful, which is also the only default case, is the Windows batch script message Terminate batch job (Y/N)? after hitting Ctrl+C when running a batch script.
This typically just ends up causing problems for the user.
The terminal will now automatically reply with Y and enter (\r) which makes Ctrl+C in Windows feel much better.
Pressing Ctrl+C will immediately reply to the question and return to the prompt:
Theme: Sapphire
The feature was made generically so you can setup custom replies for other thing, just be careful when doing this as you are sending text to the process automatically.
For example you could use it to automatically update Oh My Zsh when prompted:
"terminal.integrated.autoReplies": {
"[Oh My Zsh] Would you like to check for updates? [Y/n]": "Y\r"
}
If you use Clink and enable their similar feature, you can disable it in Clink or in VS Code by setting the reply to null to avoid the two features conflicting with each other:
"terminal.integrated.autoReplies": {
"Terminate batch job (Y/N)": null
}
Go to terminal, preferences, settings.
Check "run code in terminal"
Restart VS.
I changed from bash to powershell in terminal first but the command prompt still not shown.
Then I navigate to File -> Perferences -> Settings and it starts working (command prompt shown)
This seems to just be a display problem. It happened to me when I changed my display settings for desktop icon and app scaling settings.
I managed to fix the problem by simply restarting my computer and re-opening VS code
I had the same problem ... In my case just run vs-code as administrator and works