Extract the integrated terminal

“Feature” request.

The integrated terminal grows in functionality, to the point that it could soon become very useful standalone, as its own app. I’m only a casual VScode user (using vim most of the time), but I would definitely be interested in a well-behaved, consistent, reactively-configurable, multi-platform terminal not tied to the editor.

Obviously if such a situation were to unfold, the shared component (not entirely dissimilar to VTE) should be jointly developed and shared with VScode. Both could be able to leverage a common configuration so that whether a terminal leveraging such a theoretical common component is spawned within VScode or standalone, they behave the same.

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Edit from @Tyriar:

There is some confusion about the scope of this issue, here is the clarification as the thread is long:

• This issue is tracking making the terminal “stand alone”, ie. being able to launch code --term for example (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/34442#issuecomment-901959244 for details)
• #10121 tracks being able to pull the terminal view/panel out of the window
• #10546 tracks adding tabs to the terminal, combined with #10121 this would ideally allow terminal tabs to be pulled into a separate window

[bijeebuss]

I’m glad this is being worked on. The integrated terminal in VS Code is the best terminal on windows and I would love to be able to use it as a standalone app.

[Tyriar]

This is an idea I’ve thrown around a bit, I doubt we’ll get time to work on it any time soon. The first steps for this would be more flexible movement of the panel inside the workbench and pulling it into its own window.