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I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unironically: vscode terminal. It's the terminal that has less bugs when using shift+arrows to select text. I also use PowerShell because bash doesn't allow text selection with keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Has anyone found a way to launch VS Code as just the terminal window? I've tried hacking around and doing stuff like using Zen Mode with just the terminal displayed, which is close, but I don't think that can be scripted, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can open the terminal as if it were any other file, instead of the integrated terminal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on this? How do you open the VS Code terminal on its own?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

F1 -> >Terminal: Create New Terminal in Editor Area

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah gotcha. That's not quite what I'm looking for. That opens a split-pane terminal in an existing window.

What I'm wanting to do is have something like this: code --terminal-only. That would enable it to be launched from a script or shortcut and function as a standalone terminal application. Unfortunately, however, I've looked through VS Code's command-line options, and nothing like that seems to exist.