Add nested commands to the Command Palette

[zadjii-msft]

The initial design of the command palette only covers singular commands, but includes a follow-up to support nesting commands. This way, all the commands don't appear in the menu straight away. Instead, the user must first select the parent command, to be given the sub-list.

We should support this.

[cryptworks]

I would +1 to this. Recently working with the terminal profiles.json I was having fun with calling directly to the native windows SSH "ssh.exe user@addr" as its own profile. The ability to make a manuitem to call to a separate config as its own menu entry would be tremendous. Even supporting a nested entry of ssh x@x calls with a singular master config entry would be great.

[giggio]

@zadjii-msft How do we add those nested commands? Is there a commands.json or something like that? I couldn't find it. Or is it on the settings file? If it is, I couldn't find it on schema.

Or is it not supposed to be user customizable?

[zadjii-msft]

@giggio If you're using a build that includes #6856, you can do something like the following:

        {
            "name": "Split Pane...",
            "commands": [
                {
                    "iterateOn": "profiles",
                    "name": "Split with ${profile.name}...",
                    "commands": [
                        { "command": { "action": "splitPane", "profile": "${profile.name}", "split": "auto" } },
                        { "command": { "action": "splitPane", "profile": "${profile.name}", "split": "vertical" } },
                        { "command": { "action": "splitPane", "profile": "${profile.name}", "split": "horizontal" } }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },

Just throw that into your keybindings, and that should work.

[giggio]

Perfect, it works! I was not sure where to put it. There should be an issue to update the schema.

[zadjii-msft]

@giggio I'm purposely not updating the docs until we feel it's ready for general adoption 😉

The docs will probably be updated as a part of #7174

[giggio]

Not the docs, the schema: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/cascadia/profiles.schema.json

[zadjii-msft]

Sorry, in my head, the schema is part of the docs. I get how that's confusing 😛

[ghost]

:tada:This issue was addressed in #6856, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v1.3.2382.0.:tada:

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