Trying to choose Command Prompt in the Terminal however I can only see Zsh, bash, and Javascript bug terminal.... I've gone in to Select Default profile as suggested in similar threads I've found and still can't find it?
How do i get Command Prompt in there?
Note: I don't have Powershell either, and I'm on a Mac
If you are referring to cmd.exe, that is a windows only program and you won't be able to use it on MacOS.
Terminal is the MacOS Equivalent and can run shells such as bash and zsh as you noted.
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I'm new to programming and using python. I am unable to use the terminal to use command-line work. I can run script, but nothing from the command line
I cannot even do print('hello'), though I can do that on idle
I have reviewed some tutorials, but they are of no help
If you're talking about VS Code built-in terminal (Ctrl+`), before execute print('hello') or some similar code, you should first start Python interective session by typing in python and hitting Enter.
Check this link for more details.
If I'm in my terminal and open a file with the code command, vscode will launch and the terminal inside code will show my full zsh setup that I have configured in hyper terminal. But if I open up code through windows, and select wsl as my default shell, it's pretty much useless. Anything I try, like sudo, git, apt, etc will return a command not found message.
So if I want to commit any changes in the terminal inside code then I have to use the git bash shell. Is it possible to get my zsh working without first launching from my terminal emulator so I'm using wsl instead of git bash?
running wslconfig.exe /list in powershell showed me that WSL was set to docker as the default shell, so then running wslconfig.exe /setdefault "Ubuntu" in powershell fixed my problem.
I'm trying to use iterm as my focus terminal inside vscode. I've setup "terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app", but I get zsh instead of iTerm.
I'm able to right click on a file and open in iterm but I love the integrated terminal, and want to use iTerm here.
How do I use iterm as my terminal?
You cannot set iTerm as the integrated terminal for VS Code. I have explained below why.
iTerm is not a shell but a terminal emulator which in your case is running the zsh shell.
I believe you are confusing the terms Shell and a terminal emulator.
iTerm is a terminal emulator. Some examples of terminal emulator are Gnome terminal, Guake, Xterm etc. They provide a display to the shell which is installed in the OS.
A shell is a command line interface that reads and interprets your commands. Examples of shell are bash which comes by default in Linux and other shells like zsh, fish, sh.
Visual Studio Code integrated terminals use the shell itself and not the terminal emulator. In Windows OS the distinction between shell and terminal emulator is not present so Powershell and Command Prompt are both the shell and the emulator.
But for Unix like OSes there is a distinction.
I believe you use iTerm as the terminal emulator and the shell used is zsh (pronounced Z Shell which is a fork of bash Bourne Again Shell).
Here is a wikipedia article on Unix Shell. This talks about what a Unix shell really is.
This link is about Terminal emulators which also talks about the history of terminals.
This link gives a list of terminal emulators
that are available. iTerm is a terminal emulator for Mac OS.
Though you can customize your normal terminal using this
then later remember to go to settings then assign the new configurations to override the default ones
"terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Meslo LG S DZ for Powerline",
"terminal.explorerKind": "external",
The accepted answer has precisely addressed the question.
Here I will add a side note:
Why do you want iterm2 in integrated shell?
My answer is: I want the "copy on selection" feature of iterm2.
Actually vscode has this setting for the integrated terminal!
Settings > Terminal > Integrated: Copy On Selection
By the way, vscode also allows you to split the terminal, which is like iterm2.
I just installed vim. It's awesome. From PowerShell, I want to be able to launch it both via typing vim and by typing vim someFile.txt.
I can already open vim through the run dialog. Further, it's already in my system PATH. What must I do to launch it from PowerShell?
If it's already in the path, it should work.
But you can, alternatively, use an alias via New-Alias. If you add that to your profile, it will load every time.
To see how the run box behaves differently from powershell, and how you might get around that, see my answer here:
Run a program by name from PowerShell (similarly to the run box)
I've always used Emacs under Linux, but now I got a Windows machine and installed it.
However, every time I open Emacs it also opens a terminal (called cmd.exe on Windows, I think). Is there a way I can disable that terminal?
Thank you.
If you got the GNU version of emacs for Windows from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/, there is an .exe called runemacs.exe. Use that instead of emacs.exe. "runemacs" will not pop up the annoying cmd window.