Test: Terminal editors

[Tyriar]

Refs: #10546 #125514

• macOS @lszomoru
• linux @weinand
• Windows @andreamah

Complexity: 5

Authors: @Tyriar, @meganrogge

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Terminals can now be moved to editor groups, there are a few ways to do this:

• Drag a terminal tab into an editor group
• Right click a terminal tab and select move into editor group
• Run either Create Terminal Editor or Move Terminal into Editor Group commands
• Set "terminal.integrated.defaultLocation": "editor"
  Before creating issues please read the philosophy section of the plan item to get an understanding of what's expected - feedback is welcome of course.

Please do some exploratory testing around the editors, here are some things to get you started and keep an eye on:

• During development we ran into these issues a few times
  • Reloading the window would sometimes shuffle the terminals randomly
  • The terminal panel would be empty when terminal editors were used
  • Some terminal commands wouldn't work as expected in editors and/or the panel
• Does the terminal extension API work in terminal editors and are events fired correctly?
• Editor tab icon, color and status show up correctly
• Terminal status information shows up when hovering editor tabs
• Terminal editors should always be pinned
• Does ctrl+w close the tab as expected on Windows and Linux? It's meant to close the tab and not send ^w to the terminal by default
• Does split editor work?
• Does the add terminal editor action button and dropdown work?
• Does process reconnection work after reload?
• Different environments:
  • Remote extensions
  • Codespaces
  • Live share

[weinand]

The term "Terminal Editor" sounds rather strange.
Is there a functional difference between an "Integrated Terminal" and a "Terminal Editor" (other than its container)? Since terminals can be freely moved between the panel area and the editor area, I don't think so, right?
It would make more sense to me if the "Create Terminal Editor" command would be called "Create Terminal in Editor area"

[Tyriar]

@weinand sounds good to me, "Terminal Editor" is the internal term and that was the first command we added to get started. We're using this "in editor area/group" in this command and the context menus already: