[Feature Request]: Integrated terminal

[srb623]

Describe your idea in details

In Visual Studio Code there is an option for an integrated terminal which sets the default directory to the directory of the project. I cannot find this option in codelite and would find it useful given that I'd prefer to develop via custom make files (the subject of another feature request) and thus an integrated terminal where I can work would be a good feature.

[eranif]

building a full terminal and integrating it into CodeLite, is something that requires a lot of resources and probably a separate project on GitHub.

Having said that, I was able to develop and add a built-in terminal that has the basic functionalities with one drawback: You can not use it with programs that requires ncurses, e.g. like vim (you could, they just wont work well...)

The current implementation supports:

• ANSI escape colouring
• Standard keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-L (clear screen), Ctrl-U (clear line), Ctrl-D (logout), Ctrl-C, Ctrl-R (auto complete from command history)
• Hitting TAB will perform word completion based
• Password are entered using separate dialog

In addition:

• To jump directly to the terminal, the default F6 keyboard accelerator will do the trick
• Up / Down arrow will toggle between the command history
• Auto import of your ~/.bash_history

Some captured screenshots:

[eranif]

Note: I am closing this feature request since its basically implemented, but new features will be added to the terminal:

• Set the workspace folder as the terminal directory
• Allowing to choose other interpreter on Windows (e.g. using MSYS2's bash or WSL bash)
• Support multi terminals using tiled layout, similar to Tilix emulator (side by side)

[eranif]

Another small update on this one, here is how it looks now: