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Editor Terminal

Editor Terminal

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Open a new terminal in an editor tab
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Editor Terminal

Opens a new terminal as an editor tab instead of in the bottom panel.

Usage

Two icon buttons are added to the terminal panel's title bar:

Button Action
$(terminal) Open a new terminal directly in an editor tab
$(link-external) Move the current panel terminal into the editor area

These are the only entry points — neither command appears in the Command Palette.

The new terminal is created in the active editor column. Change ViewColumn.Active to ViewColumn.Beside in src/extension.ts if you would rather have it split alongside the current editor.

Develop

npm install
npm run compile

Press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host with the extension loaded.

Package

npx @vscode/vsce package
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