Microsoft has released new versions of Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview. Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application from Microsoft that features multiple tabs, UTF-8 character support, and a GPU accelerated text rendering engine.
Windows Terminal Preview 1.3 brings all of the 1.2 features that were in Preview along with some new improvements. Today’s release brings “Command palette” that allows you to search through all of the commands available to you in Windows Terminal (similar Visual Studio Code). Windows Terminal 1.3 also brings advanced tab switcher and some other new additions.
Here is the complete changelog of Windows Terminal 1.3
Command palette
The command palette is finally here! This new feature allows you to search through all of the commands available to you in Windows Terminal, similar to the one found in Visual Studio Code. You can invoke the command palette by typing Ctrl+Shift+P. If you’d like to change this key binding, you can add the commandPalette command to the keybindings array in your settings.json.
{ “command”: “commandPalette”, “keys”: “ctrl+shift+p” }
The command palette has two modes: action mode and command line mode. Action mode is the mode you will enter by default and will list all of your Windows Terminal commands. Command line mode can be entered by typing > and you can then enter any wt command, which will be invoked on the current window.
You can also customize actions you’d like to add to the command palette by adding commands to your settings.json file. Your key bindings should automatically populate the command palette. Full documentation on how to add your own commands can be found on our docs site.
Advanced tab switcher
We have added an advanced tab switcher to help you navigate more easily between your tabs. This is enabled by default with the useTabSwitcher global setting. When enabled, the nextTab and prevTab commands will use the tab switcher. By default, these keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab, respectively.
“useTabSwitcher”: true
Tab color setting
You can now specify a tab color for each profile! This can be done by adding the tabColor setting to a profile and setting it to a color in hex format.
TIP: Set your tab color to the same color as your background for a seamless experience!
New commands
We have added some new commands that you can add to your key bindings in your settings.json file. None of the following commands are bound by default.
wt commands as a key binding
We have added the ability to execute wt.exe command line arguments with key bindings. This can be done with the wt command. The commandline property defines the command line arguments you would like to invoke on the current window. More information on wt command line arguments can be found on our docs site.
// This command opens a new tab with PowerShell in a pane, a vertical pane running the Command Prompt profile in the C: directory, and a horizontal pane running the Ubuntu profile.
{ “command”: { “action”: “wt”, “commandline”: “new-tab pwsh.exe ; split-pane -p “Command Prompt” -d C:\ ; split-pane -p “Ubuntu” -H” }, “keys”: “ctrl+a” }Send input to the shell
If you want to send input to the shell by using a keyboard shortcut, you can do so with the sendInput command. (Thanks @lhecker!)
// This command navigates backwards through the shell history.
{ “command”: { “action”: “sendInput”, “input”: “u001b[A” }, “keys”: “ctrl+b” }Tab search
If you are someone who has a lot of tabs open (like myself), this new command is a life saver. You can now search through your tabs in a new search box using the tabSearch command.
{ “command”: “tabSearch”, “keys”: “ctrl+c” }
Change color scheme
You can set the color scheme of the active window by using the setColorScheme command.
{ “command”: { “action”: “setColorScheme”, “name”: “Campbell” }, “keys”: “ctrl+d” }
There are also some bug fixes included with today’s release. Both builds of Windows Terminal (1.2 and Preview 1.3) are available through the Microsoft Store and GitHub releases page.
Earlier today from Microsoft:
- Microsoft releases upcoming Windows 10 20H2 to the Release Preview Channel
- ISO files now available for 20H2 Build 19042 and Build 20102
- Dev Channel gets a new build
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