Hello, Habr! You may have heard that a new one is coming out very soon. Windows Terminal. We've already written about this. . Our colleague Scott Hanselman has prepared some tips on how to work with the new terminal. Join now!
So you've downloaded Windows Terminal and... what now?
At first, you may not be thrilled. It's still a Terminal, and it won't lead you by the hand.
1) Familiarize yourself with
2) The settings are expressed in . You will do better if your JSON file editor is something like and will support JSON Schema as well as intellisense.
- Check your default settings! For clarity, I present my (which is by no means ideal). I have set requestedTheme, alwaysShowTabs and defaultProfile.
3) Decide on keyboard shortcuts. Windows Terminal has .
- Any key you press can be remapped.
4) Does the design match your desires?
- For there are several themes for the terminal.
- And here are dozens , with their color solutions you can clearly see .
5) Want to take it to the next level? Explore background images.
- You can set background images or even GIFs. More .
6) Specify your startingDirectory.
- If you are using WSL, you may sooner or later want your home directory to be in .
7) You can still use Far, GitBash, Cygwin, or cmder if you like. Details in .
8) Learn command line arguments Windows Terminal.
- You may know that you can run Windows Terminal using "wt.exe," but now you can also use command-line arguments! Here are some examples:
wt ; split-pane -p "Windows PowerShell" ; split-pane -H wsl.exe wt -d . wt -d c:githubAt this stage, you can go as far as you want. Make other icons, pin them to the taskbar, have fun. Also, check out subcommands like new-tab, split-pane, and focus-tab.
9) I wrote down , demonstrating to a person accustomed to Mac and Linux, how to set up Windows Terminal in conjunction with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), perhaps you will be interested in it.
Please share your tips, profiles and favorite terminal themes below!
Source: habr.com
