I'm adding this question after spending an entire day wrestling with this incredibly frustrating feature of the Windows 10 command prompt which made me think there was something wrong with my console application code. I hope it will help someone.
Issue: My console application seems to randomly stop running. What is going on?
The issue ended up being a new feature of the windows 10 console. Under the default config, whenever you click on a command window in windows 10, it immediately halts the application process when it attempts to write to the console. When this happens, the command window has gone into "selection" mode.
You can tell it has happened because it will prefix the title bar of the command window with the word "Select" :
To get your program running again, you have to press escape or click somewhere else.
To get rid of this strange behavior, you can disable QuickEdit mode:
What I'd like to add here to Shaun Rowan's answer is that for it to work in all console windows you have to click "Defaults", instead of "Properties" and make your changes there, as described in this post.
I faced this problem very recently where one of the users (who had Quickedit configured on his Command Prompt) was using a tool I developed in Java, and was getting the tool frozen while running it from command prompt.
Finally what solved the problem was to redirect the logging inside the batch script to a file as shown below:
#echo off
...
java.exe -jar mytool.jar
needed to be updated to
java.exe -jar mytool.jar > log.txt
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I'm running the vscode 1.64.2 on Windows 10. Currently i met a strange problem, When i resize the terminal in the vscode and the cursor is focus on the terminal, Then it will trigger ctrl+c . At this time any running command would be terminated immediately .
To avoid this i have to un-focus for the terminal first and then resize it. Any suggestion here?
I was searching about this with no luck. Today I realized about one installed software on my machine that has a global hook on mouse selection. In my case was the QTranslate software. When I exit the application the problem was solved.
Check if you have this or another software that has a global hook on mouse selection.
In VS Code this problem (control C) was happening for any command line inside the terminal. Apart from that, opening Git bash (standalone) I was having the same issue, but not for cmd or another command line.
Hope this helps you because this was driving me crazy.
Absolutely working solution!
I experienced the same problem with mouse strange behavior for a long time, but finally I found out it was the QTranslate's guilt! After I stopped it, the problem has gone. (can't vote up because of my virgin profile here).
PS: I found the solution how to push work both QTranslate and terminal window - just set QTranslate setting "Advanced->Copy action" to "Ctrl+Insert" instead of Ctrl+C.
So I decided to quit dual-boot and start using WSL. I'm having a problem and really can figure out how to fix it.
I simply can't open VSCode using the code command from the terminal when using an external terminal. When using the integrated, a command like "code ." works just fine.
Anyone knows how to fix it? It was working good a few steps of setup ago, but I lost track and don't exactly when that happened. I'm currently using HyperJS as terminal and my integrated terminal is already running zsh and it works when the VSCode is connected to WSL and when it isn't aswell.
Anyway, hoping for a fix, 'cause I'm really lost.
Thanks!
It's fixed and it was an easy fix, but it took long for me to realize that all I had to do was one step.
Here's the thing: the command "code" on the integrated terminal was working like a charm because the VSCode itself was running as administrator on Windows.
My Hyper wasn't running as administrator, so all I did was:
Right-click on HyperJS icon and go to the properties of the application
Switch to "Compatibility" tab
Check the "Run as administrator"
It's working without a problem now. Took me a while to realize that, but it's all good now.
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
I am using VSCode version 1.12.2 in Windows 10 x64 build 16193. I am trying to debug Powershell in VSCode, but I cannot get the PowerShell Integrated Terminal working. Every time I started the terminal, here's what I see:
And then it hangs in that stage. I can still debug, start, step in, step out..., but I cannot view my variable or run any expression.
My VSCode is using powershell x64 here:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\Sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"
So this is a known issue with this version of windows 10. Workaround here: https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/742
It's possible it's getting stuck on something while loading your profile(s). Try adding this to your settings to skip this:
"powershell.enableProfileLoading": false
I have had a similar problem, it seems. I cannot be sure it is the same, but when I would "load a file with VSCode" (user installer confirmed, system installer unconfirmed), it would hang. The following avenues tested:
Double-clicking on a PS1 file (the association to Code being made)
Starting VsCode empty and then loading the file
Starting VsCode from the command-line with a file-designation parameter
Using the --verbose switch, I got a listing which lead me to believe that VsCode seemed to be checking on updates using NPM (I could be wrong here).
Whatever the underlying problem, I did a lot of prodding and probing, and the cure I found was this.
Delete the directory called C:\Users\YourUserId\.vscode.
This directory is rather large, is not wiped by software removal, and may be corrupted apparently. After deleting it, the problem disappeared.
When I start PowerShell, it launches and the the window it opens in closes immediately.
I tried taking a screenshot and it says there's a registry error:
Reading the value of registry key
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngi ne\PowerShellVersion
causes the following Win32 error: The system cannot find the file
specified.
Why is this happening?
I'm running Windows 8.1.
If anyone else is having this issue...
I tried everything on this forum as well as Microsoft's.
Ended up being an issue with my ISE profile loading $moduleBrowser that kept crashing ISE after startup [Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1].
Try launching ISE with no profile using powershell_ise.exe -noprofile. Then, open your PowerShellISE_profile.ps1. Comment it out, save it, close ISE.
Then try re-opening ISE, load your "commented-out" PowerShellISE_profile.ps1, step through your profile to see what is causing the failure.
In my case, it was just closing in like a second after starting and I wasn't seeing any errors.
Start command prompt as Administrator
run sfc /scannow
That fixed it for me.
I found it here - there were few more suggestions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40j4Mxt24PY
i just fixed the problem by adding the registery keys manually