Provide a lightweight shell selector without changing default (ie. terminal profiles)

[tigerhawkvok]

• VSCode Version: 1.21.0
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a Powershell terminal
2. Split the terminal window
3. Try to open a WSL Ubuntu terminal

It'd be great to split the terminal types for different cases!

I imagine that if you pressed and held the "+" you could select other terminals on your system, or similar UI for this.

[stellirin]

Yes, yes, yes! I wanted this for a long time, I finally came to report this and saw this report.

An example workflow:

• docker-compose work is done in PowerShell
• git work is done in Bash

This is mostly since it's pretty painful right now to get the WSL docker engine to talk nicely to Docker on Windows. I read it'll be easier in Windows 1803.

However we also have to develop dual scripts for Windows/Unix environments. Opening them side-by-side in the editor, AND the relevant terminals side-by-side beneath them would be really cool.

[fabiospampinato]

I imagine that if you pressed and held the "+" you could select other terminals on your system, or similar UI for this.

"press and hold" isn't used anywhere else in the app, so maybe this should work just on click, or maybe on right click.

In the meantime you can kind of do this already with my Terminals Manager extension, support for split terminals is in the making.

[Tyriar]

Normally I close these issues off and point people to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tyriar.shell-launcher but I do hear this quite a bit, at least for Windows users, to have a dropdown appear when you click the + button. I'll keep this open to gather more feedback, I'm a little unsure how the flow would work right now what would happen when you hit ctrl+` or ctrl+shift+`, maybe launching a default terminal unless you hit the plus button with the mouse?

[tigerhawkvok]

I think that'd be the right behavior - most shortcuts should behave as is, but have an option to do something other than default in the UI

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 11:04 Daniel Imms ***@***.***> wrote: Normally I close these issues off and point people to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tyriar.shell-launcher but I do hear this quite a bit, at least for Windows users, to have a dropdown appear when you click the + button. I'll keep this open to gather more feedback, I'm a little unsure how the flow would work right now what would happen when you hit ctrl+` or ctrl+shift+`, maybe launching a default terminal unless you hit the plus button with the mouse? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#45444 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAKIMWw4lOEvCIWSkDb6tTzyZKAu0c_-ks5tdri-gaJpZM4Sk3Mm> .

--

…

--------------------------- Philip Kahn PGP: 0x93E0B76BD90C5093 https://goo.gl/glVMPc == https://goo.gl/FVUggu Signal / Telegram / Allo: 510.859.3142

---------------------------