Feature: Default terminal settings

[BenWildeman]

It would be great if this had a setting for automatically opening terminals. In my local version I have added this, but I would like your thoughts on this before I submit a pull request with this feature.

Currently I have the following setting:

"terminalTabs.defaultTerminals": [{
  "name": "Terminal Name",
  "directory": "c:\\path\\to\\directory",
  "command" "command to start with when terminal created"
}]

Motivation

I personally have a workspace created in VS Code Insiders which has two directories. These directories are our API and Apps repositories. When I use this workspace, I'm constantly opening up 4 terminals. API terminal running API in dev mode, Apps terminal running in dev mode, and subsequent git terminals for managing these repositories.

By adding these terminals to the defaultTerminal settings outlined above within my .code-workspace file, these terminals automatically open when the workspace is opened, saving time and repeating mundane tasks.

Implementation

This is currently achieved by doing the following:

• changing the "activationEvents" to "*"
• calling the kill active terminal command to remove the stupid lingering terminal on vscode start
• adding a sendCommand function to StatusBarTerminal
• looping through the default terminals
  • setting name on creation
  • calling sendCommand with cd to the specified directory in the setting
  • calling sendCommand with the specified command in the setting

Questions

Are you happy with this implementation outlined above? Any suggestions going forward with this?

[Tyriar]

I get the motivation but I don't think this is the right place to put the solution.

• There is this extension which aims to solve this problem which I would recommend https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fabiospampinato.vscode-terminals
• Also Retain terminal processes between window reloads microsoft/vscode#20013 is to add native support for this sort of thing to VS Code without an extension.

I also don't want to add much more to this extension as I'd rather focus efforts on adding splitting microsoft/vscode#7504 and proper tab support microsoft/vscode#10546 to VS Code.

[Tyriar]

@NiTrOGhost also thanks for prodding me on this, I did some long overdue dumping of my thoughts into microsoft/vscode#20013 (comment) and microsoft/node-pty#151 😄