Prompt which "working directory" when in multiple projects workspace

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. VSCode allows to create workspaces that are not single project/folder. For example, you want the workspace to have “project_a” and “project_b” opened together for some reason.

{
  "folders": [
    {
      "path": "project_a"
    },
    {
      "path": "project_b"
    }
  ]
}

When opening a new terminal, there is a prompt to set the working directory of the terminal:

vscode-R does not ask and use the first (in alphabetical order) as working directory.

Describe the solution you’d like The feature would ask the user to set the working directory as it is currently done for new terminals.

[MilesMcBain]

I think having a selection dialogue when there is no active editior from which to derive a working directory is a reasonable fallback. I just wouldn’t want to see that become the behaviour at all times.

The current behaviour is consistent with Emacs Speaks Statistics for what that’s worth.

On the last point I believe there is a VSCode setting that controls the way terminals are named, so you may be able to get that Debian behaviour on windows also.

[mcanouil]

I agree about having it all times would be really annoying, as #965 currently is by continuously and repeatedly prompting to install languageserver (see #1037).

About terminal naming, it is named from the working directory for powershell, only R terminal does not have it on Windows. I’ll double check the settings (which are mostly synced across OSs).