The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let’s dive into what’s new!
Command Line Arguments
The wt
execution alias now supports command line arguments! You can now launch Terminal with new tabs and panes split just how you like, with the profiles you like, starting in the directories you like! The possibilities are endless! Here are some examples:
wt -d .
Opens the Terminal with the default profile in the current working directory.
wt -d . ; new-tab -d C:\ pwsh.exe
Opens the Terminal with two tabs. The first is running the default profile starting in the current working directory. The second is using the default profile with pwsh.exe as the "commandline"
(instead of the default profile’s "commandline"
) starting in the C:\ directory.
wt -p "Windows PowerShell" -d . ; split-pane -V wsl.exe
Opens the Terminal with two panes, split vertically. The top pane is running the profile with the name “Windows Terminal” and the bottom pane is running the default profile using wsl.exe as the "commandline"
(instead of the default profile’s "commandline"
).
wt -d C:\Users\cinnamon\GitHub\WindowsTerminal ; split-pane -p "Command Prompt" ; split-pane -p "Ubuntu" -d \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\cinnak -H
See below. 😊
If you’d like to read up on everything you can do with our new command line arguments, check out the full documentation here.
Auto-Detect PowerShell
If you’re a big fan of PowerShell Core, we have great news for you. The Windows Terminal will now detect any version of PowerShell and automatically create a profile for you. The PowerShell version we think looks best (starting from highest version number, to the most GA version, to the best-packaged version) will be named as “PowerShell” and will take the original PowerShell Core slot in the dropdown.
Confirm Close All Tabs
Are you someone who always wants to close all of your tabs without being asked every time? If you said yes, this new feature is for you! A new global setting has been created that allows you to always hide the “Close All Tabs” confirmation dialog. You can set "confirmCloseAllTabs"
to false
at the top of your profiles.json file and you’ll never see that popup again! Thanks to @rstat1 for the contribution of this new setting. 😊
Other Improvements
⭐ Accessibility: You can now navigate word-by-word using Narrator or NVDA!
⭐ You can now drag and drop a file into the Terminal and the file path will be printed!
⭐ Ctrl+Ins
and Shift+Ins
are bound by default to copy
and paste
respectively!
⭐ You can now hold Shift
and click to expand your selection!
⭐ VS Code keys used for key bindings are now supported (i.e. "pgdn"
and "pagedown"
are both valid)!
Bug Fixes
🐛 Accessibility: Terminal won’t crash when Narrator is running!
🐛 Terminal won’t crash when you provide an invalid background image or icon path!
🐛 Our popup dialogs all now have rounded buttons!
🐛 The search box now works properly in high contrast!
🐛 Some ligatures will render more correctly!
Top Contributors
We always love working with our community and we’d like to give out our monthly contribution awards. Check out the winners!
Contributors Who Opened the Most Non-Duplicate Issues
🏆 j4james
🏆 JekRock
🏆 jsoref
Contributors Who Created the Most Merged Pull Requests
🏆 j4james
🏆 vtabota
🏆 mkitzan
Contributors Who Provided the Most Comments on Pull Requests
🏆 jsoref
🏆 j4james
Let’s Chat
If you ever have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to Kayla (@cinnamon_msft) on Twitter or file an issue on GitHub. We hope you like this feature-complete release of the Terminal before v1 and we’ll be back with another update soon!
This is a good feature. By customizing the opening like 'wt -p "Ubuntu" -d \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\user', I don't need to change my windows home folder (/mnt/c/Users/user) to Linux one (/home/user) everytime I open my Ubuntu profile any more, which has been bugging me for weeks. What's strange is that this trick (using -d flag to specify the starting directory) does not seem to work with Powershell Profile though: whatever directory I try, it just starts in...
Looks good! But when I launch WT from the address bar of File Explorer, it takes me to my home directory, not the directory that I’m in.
If I invoke cmd or powershell they take me to the current folder directory.
🙁
I’m trying to use the nano.exe that comes with Git for Windows. Some of the commands such as Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End, Shift+Home, and Shift+End aren’t working. It’s not working in Windows Terminal or the PowerShell/cmd console window. It does work in a WSL Ubuntu window. I’m assuming this is a problem with the nano.exe that comes with Git for Windows? Or, would it be a problem with the console?
Hi, is possible to configure split-pane when windows terminal start? thanks
Can't figure out how to launch Windows Terminal from a PowerShell prompt and have it work. From one of the examples above, if I type in:
❯ wt -p "Windows PowerShell" -d . ; split-pane -V wsl.exe
split-pane: The term 'split-pane' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try...
Figured it out:
Hmm, well split pane is a start but who thought it a good idea not to bother to implement some way of doing from - you know "Windows" after which the OS is named?! In fact, you can't even do it from PowerShell! Neither can you split panes from an open WSL or other Linux shell. :-(
Nor can you resize the split? And this is v0.9?
Sorry all but that kind of misses the mark. I...
This includes Developer PowerShell (yes, i know it wasn’t a version strictly speaking)?
Does windows terminal have emoji support just yet? When I type an emoji into power shell I get ?? and not the emoji like in the preview video. I tried different fonts too (Segoe emoji), déjà sans etc. No luck.