In Visual Studio Code, launch a Console application in an external window - visual-studio-code

I have a Console application open in VS Code. When I press Ctrl-F5, the output of my program is displayed in a DEBUG CONSOLE window, along with other text.
How do I get Visual Studio code to launch my program in a new console window?

As documented here this can be achieved using this setting:
"console": "externalTerminal"
The settings file is in the solution directory: .vscode/launch.json .

When you're just using Tasks and not Launchers, you can follow the advice here.
For me on Linux, I changed my shell command in VSCode from command to gnome-terminal -e command. That did the trick; that's all I had to do.
Note that if you do this you can get rid of the presentation option set from your task.

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how to stop VSCode terminal to open a new cmd window in each command?

On window 10 with vscode -v 1.51.1 terminal with cmd.
After writing the command and hitting the enter key... a new window is open and close...
so, if I'm trying to check --version the window is already close and i can't see results..
or if i having an error - i cant see it if the window is close... so for now: i use print screen..
how can i get the process output run on the same window... on the VSCode terminal?
If am understanding your question you can try
code -v
OMG
Turn off ConPTY integration in the
File->Preferences->Settings->conPTY->Uncheck it
Integrated terminal in visual studio code is opening externally and not internally

Open file from integrated terminal in VS Code

I have VS Code setup with WSL on my Windows 10 machine. I am trying to find the command I can use to open an existing file from the integrated terminal in the current VS Code window.
I tried code filename, which launches a new VS Code window. I tried with code -r filename, but it also launches a new window.
Is there a way to quickly open a file when I'm focussed on the terminal?
As of version 1.43.1, this appears to now work as expected, without additional add ons.

How to debug an interactive Node.js app in VS Code?

How do you run and debug an interactive Node.js app (one that prompts the user to enter STDIN on the console) in VS Code using a simple launch (F5). I have so far been running the app using node --inspect-brk . and then attaching VS Code. This works fine, but I'm just wondering if there's a faster way. If I look at the DEBUG CONSOLE pane, I can see the STDOUT, but I can't add input there.
Randy's comment was my answer with a link here. Thanks, Randy.
The solution is to configure the console value in your launch.json file. I added "console": "integratedTerminal" and now when I hit F5 I can jump to the integrated terminal (CTRL+<backtick>) and interact with my app.

In Visual Studio Code, how do you inject clink into the integrated terminal?

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.

How to open a file from the integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code?

Is there a way of opening a file from the terminal in Visual Studio Code that opens in the same vscode instance that runs the terminal? Similar to c9 tool in Cloud9.
I'm aware of the code tool, but when you run code something.php from the integrated terminal it opens a new vscode instance, which is not what I want...
You can use -r or --reuse-window command line option.
code -r something.php
just
code file_name
I tried it on Win10 and on Linux (Ubuntu)
I don't know what operating system you're using, but on MacOS you can just say open filename.ext in the integrated terminal, and it will open a new tab in the same VSCode instance, ready for you to edit.
If you are having command not found: code in macOS, use a full path to it.
/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code -r [filename]
Open Visual Studio Code
Press CMD + SHIFT + P (this opens "Command Palette")
Type shell command
Select “Install code command in path”
Navigate to any project from the terminal, and type code .
If it didn't work, select “Uninstall code command from path” first, then reinstall it again.
I use code -r . to open the current directory in the main window.
You can use the code command from the CLI to open a file, but if you want it to open in the existing window, either use code -r <file> as mentioned in other answers (which does work for me on Ubuntu Linux), or, if -r does not work (under WSL?), make sure window.openFilesInNewWindow is either off or default in settings.json or the in VS Code settings UI, then use code <file>.
Many things can be found in open --help
A work around that worked for me on MacOS is:
open -a 'Visual Studio Code.app' something.php
in the version 1.31.0 that I have installed, on Windows 7, the only way I found to do this is to e.g. change the file associations in system so that .cproj and .cs files are opened by Visual Studio Code by default, and type "filename.cs" in Terminal to open file by that name in the same window... -r option is not working for the first call (opens a new window), but with each subsequent call that same window is correctly reused. ok can't get to open whole directories this way - it's a bit shoddy anyway. probably it would be more convenient to use an outside shell and work with "-r" option
VSCode 1.64 (Jan. 2022) comes with a new command:
Keyboard Navigable Links
Previously, link navigation in the terminal required the use of a mouse.
Now, links can be opened using only the keyboard via the following commands:
Terminal: Open Detected Link... to view all links (web, file, word)
Terminal: Open Last Web Link... ex: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
Terminal: Open Last File Link... ex: /Users/user/repo/file.txt
Check if the last command Terminal: Open Last File Link... would help in your case.
See also "Terminal shell integration"