VSCode should register itself as a default terminal.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Currently, in Windows, the sole terminals that register themselves as available defaults at the OS level are Windows Terminal (Preview) and cmd.exe. (Not even Fluent Terminal is able to yet.)

Windows Terminal is a good terminal, but when compared to VS Code's, I see many reasons to prefer VS Code's terminal.

Consequently, I suggest that Visual Studio Code register itself as an available default terminal.

[meganrogge]

/duplicate #34442

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@meganrogge, this isn't duplicate. I don't care whether the terminal is able to be extracted from the main window. Just having a window with merely a terminal in is adequate for me, since it's barely any different to Windows Terminal's current interface.

Consequently, please revert your decision to triage this as duplicate and close it.

[meganrogge]

This would require introducing a CLI for the terminal which is what the issue I cited above requires. we take note of duplicates to see what we should prioritize in the upcoming iterations, so thank you for creating the issue 👍🏼

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@meganrogge, is the terminal itself not a CLI? I apologize, for I feel like I'm wasting time asking for explanations of simple things, but surely these are separate. Even completing the linked issue wouldn't remediate this problem, because it wouldn't allow VS Code to register as a default terminal.

Not merely any terminal is able to be defined as the OS default. That was why I linked felixse/FluentTerminal#965 – it was to demonstrate that Windows Terminal and cmd.exe are the only ones that currently support this feature, so it must be manually supported by the developers.

[meganrogge]

I'll reopen this issue to track making it an OS default, but this is blocked by / related to #34442, which we'd have to complete before we could consider this

[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[Tyriar]

@RokeJulianLockhart the terminal itself is not a CLI; you cannot control the VS Code terminal via the code CLI.

Since one of the primary deliverables of #34442 is to make a cli and registering it as a default is part of that, we're already tracking it there. Keeping another issue open is just extra clutter for us to manage, we just did issue grooming to get our issue count to a more sane value and we want to try keep it manageable.

It's the 11th highest voted issue in the repository so it's definitely on our radar.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Understood. @Tyriar, if the team considers this to be a necessary step in considering #34442 to be complete, I'll trust ya.