In Visual Studio Code, I would like to open a PowerShell window (outside of VSC) with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C.
By default, this shortcut will open a cmd.exe, so I would like to replace it.
You can set the terminal.external.windowsExec setting in settings.json. See this to find PowerShell's executable path if yours isn't the default one.
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\1.0\\powershell.exe"
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I want to use a shortcut to open up a specific folder in Visual Studio Code in a new window. I am on Fedora with Gnome Shell and have tried the integrated shortcut manager that can be found in the settings. When I define a shortcut with the command code -n ~/path/to/folder, Visual Studio opens a new file with the name folder. When I run the same command in the terminal it works as expected, i.e. a new window is opened in the specified folder.
Turns out ~ cannot be used in this context, so providing an absolute path fixed the issue.
I cannot Copy-Paste from the Visual Studio Code console. In ISE one can copy-paste some of the output, but it does not seem to be possible in Visual Studio Code Terminal. How can I copy-paste the output from the console when running PowerShell commands? I have the PowerShell Extension.
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for copying / pasting work as-is in Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal.
By contrast, right-click behavior is configurable:
On Windows, the default behavior is to copy, if text is currently selected, and paste otherwise - as in regular console windows.
To get the same behavior as in the Windows PowerShell ISE, i.e. to instead show a shortcut menu, which contains Copy and Paste commands, add the following line to your settings.json file (before the closing }):
"terminal.integrated.rightClickBehavior": "default",
Alternatively, use the settings GUI (press Ctrl+,):
Note:
The screenshot was taken on macOS, where selectWord is the default setting; on Windows, it is copyPaste, with the behavior as described above.
Also note the GUI's convenient search feature: typing right click in the search field was sufficient to locate the relevant setting.
The title mostly says it all about the question.
I want to set the newest Microsoft's Windows Terminal as an external terminal in Visual Studio Code.
I found the WT's executable in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.4.2382.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WindowsTerminal.exe. Then I entered the path into VSC in the terminal.external.windowsExec. Then tried to run my program, but VSC showed a pop-up which says "Could not find "C:\Program". Check whether the path is written right an try again."
Also I have tried to use a shortcut (literally dragged the WT tile from Start to my desktop folder), then entered its path into the setting, but it just opens the app without starting the program.
You are essentially asking VS Code to Run... a program via the Ctrl + Shift + C command.
Per the tip here, you can achieve what you are looking for by simply entering:
wt
...into the terminal.external.windowsExec section.
It might not be handling the space in the filename correctly. Try surrounding the pathname in quotes like this: "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.4.2382.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WindowsTerminal.exe"
WT now supports the "-d" parameter to open itself in a given directory: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/4023
But VSCODE does not allow to pass arguments to an external terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/58086
The workaround for this is to create a batch script somewhere called wt.bat containing:
#start wt.exe -d "."
#exit
And put it on vscode Terminal>External: Windows Exec setting.
Note that the "Windows Terminal", as external terminal, does not launch in the workspace directory (issue 90734)
Set terminal.external.windowsExec to wt
Run "Open New External Terminal" from the command palette
A new instance of Windows Terminal opens, but with the default directory, instead of ${workspaceFolder}.
So while the Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release allows a starting directory to be specified with -d <starting dir>, it would not work with VSCode up to 1.44 (March 2020).
This should be fixed with VSCode 1.45 (April 2020): PR 90773.
I can open it with this configuration
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "wt.exe"
My windows terminal version is 1.11.2921.0
Then I found that Windows terminal is actually wt.exe
It's in a path like this C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\************\wt.exe
Then, I add the above 'wt.exe' to the vscode configuration file
In the terminal (PowerShell) in Visual Studio Code, I'm trying to hit Ctrl+Backspace to delete last word, but it just adds ^W to end of the line, any ideas how to fix this? It works fine outside Visual Studio Code in PowerShell.
ctrl+backspace is somehow mapped to ctrl+w in vscode integrated terminal (possibly a bug) and now we need to set ctrl+w binding to delete the word explicitly. weird right?
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord 'Ctrl+w' -Function BackwardKillWord
Note that this'll work for the current terminal session only.
To make this behaviour persistent, you can set it in profile Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 file. Create the file if it doesn't exist in your powershell version folder.
C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
write at the top
if ($env:TERM_PROGRAM -eq "vscode") {
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord 'Ctrl+w' -Function BackwardKillWord
}
See more: Power up your PowerShell
Keybinding references:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/previous-versions/powershell/module/psreadline/Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler?view=powershell-5.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/previous-versions/powershell/module/psreadline/set-psreadlinekeyhandler?view=powershell-5.0
Based on the latest comment https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/68167 I have modified JerryGoyal's answer so we don't have to modify bindings:
Put the following at the top of your Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 config file (type $profile in the terminal to find it, you might have to create one if it doesn't exist already)
if ($env:TERM_PROGRAM -eq "vscode") {
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Emacs
}
This works for me (vscode 1.43)
It was showing ^W when I pressed Ctrl+Backspace.
Just run this command in the vscode console
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Emacs
NOW IT WORKS!
Looks like an issue that is being tracked: see workbench.action.terminal.deleteWordLeft Doesn't Work, Outputs ^W.
Works fine for me in git bash terminal but not powershell as of vscode 1.36.
vscode v1.45 made some changes to these terminal commands, like deleteWordLeft. Does Ctrl+Backspace work better for you now?
See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_45.md#removal-of-several-prompt-related-commands
VSCode 1.48 (July2020) might help.
Issue 98404 does allow ctrl+backspace to delete entire word in cmd.exe, which could work for a powershell session too.
See PR 98494:
Before (when it was not working):
After (working):
Check you keybindings in your settings to be sure it is still set.
I have had some oddities with keybindings getting removed / changed when adding a new extension or an update. You may just need to add it back.
Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
Of course VSCode and PowerShell are two different environments. If you split your terminal window (I do this all the time for my own work use case), you will end up with the VSChost and the standard consolehost and you'll see that though you are in VSCode, they behave differently.
If you have not done so, you may want to customize you VSCode profile which is what the integrated console will read, where as the consolehost will read your PowerShell console profile not you ISE profile.
To add to JerryGoyal answer:
If you have difficulties finding profile folder and/or making it works. Here's what helped me.
I created folder c:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\
Put Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 there
Powershell than tells you about security problems. You have to allow this by running powershell as admin.
Than type Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned.
Answer Y(yes). This is obviously at your own risk!
Add this to keybindings.json in vs code
{
"key": "ctrl+backspace",
"command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
"when": "terminalFocus",
"args": { "text": "\u0017" }
},
I was using clink with ConEmu for various node related tasks on windows, but now I'm trying Visual Studio code.
How do I inject clink into Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal, so that I can get real command history persistence between sessions, incremental history search, etc.?
With ConEmu I could inject clink by dropping the clink folder into a specified pickup directory.
I've tried using the path to the included clink bat file, and the clink exe in the VS Code setting terminal.integrated.shell.windows but these spawn and then close the command shell immediately.
Thanks!
I discovered that you can pass arguments to the integrated shell in Visual Studio Code. Combined with the cmd.exe /K option which Carries out the command specified by string but remains, clink can be injected.
In VS Code, go to File > Preferences > Settings or use Ctrl , and add the settings:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["/K", "C:\\path\\to\\clink\\clink_x64.exe inject"]
This is the equivalent of opening a command prompt in Windows, and running clink_x64 inject.
It is not answer for your question, but there is another trick to see cmder and text editor in one window. You can open your text editor as another tab in cmder, which I described here:
https://medium.com/#WMorkowski/protip-integrating-cmder-with-text-editor-7f08a6e76de7
from article:
Run your cmder.
Go to ‘Settings -> Startup -> Environment’
Type: set EDITOR_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe alias editor="%EDITOR_PATH%" $1 -new_console:s50V Where
in the first line you should type path to your text editor (I was
testing it on Visual Studio Code and Sublime, but it should work with
other editors).
Save your settings
Type ‘editor’ command in command line.
Whoa! We almost finished. But in most cases you don’t want console tab
to be attached to the top of the window. You should close console tab,
and open it again, paying attention to check “New console split to
bottom” checkbox and choose the right console type. Now when you
finally set everything up, you should go to ‘Settings -> Startup’, and
check “Auto save/restore opened tabs” checkbox to save our new
workflow. Now every time you run cmder, your tabs setup will be
restored.
Expanding on my comment:
Open settings.json with:
File > Open > %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json
And assuming you installed clink with the magic of chocolatey:
choco install clink-maintained
Then your clink_x64.exe lives here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\clink\clink_x64.exe
And the lines you add to settings.json look like:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
"/K",
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\clink\\clink_x64.exe",
"inject",
"--profile",
"~\\clink"
],
Note the addition of --profile ... this allows the history to be persistent between vscode sessions.