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fabiospampinato / vscode-terminals

An extension for setting-up multiple terminals at once, or just running some commands.
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[Question] Comparison to built-in feature? #72

Closed lonix1 closed 1 year ago

lonix1 commented 1 year ago

I found this extension, but I also this built-in feature.

Does someone know how they differ, and if this extension adds more functionality?

Basically I want to open a number of terminals when I open vscode. Each one in a separate directory.

Mattias-Martens commented 1 year ago

at a glance the main difference is that the built-in feature does not support custom icons and colors: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130070

on the other hand this extension does not support creating groups; and neither feature supports creating terminals with split panes.

for your use case i don't think you will find much difference. to me, built-in tasks looks a bit cumbersome compared to the scheme of terminals.json, but that's about it.

fabiospampinato commented 1 year ago

I see this extension mainly as a mean to set-up some terminals automatically, and as a way to spawn one-off terminals quickly. I don't think the built-in terminal supports these features? Other than that there are only small differences I think.