{"id":6068,"date":"2020-08-26T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:55:01","slug":"windows-terminal-preview-1-3-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/windows-terminal-preview-1-3-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Terminal Preview 1.3 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are back with another release for Windows Terminal<\/a> and Windows Terminal Preview<\/a>! This release adds all of the 1.2 features<\/a> into Windows Terminal and introduces new features described below for Windows Terminal Preview 1.3. Both builds of Windows Terminal can be installed from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page<\/a>. Let’s check out what’s new this month!<\/p>\n

Command palette<\/h2>\n

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<\/code>. If you’d like to change this key binding, you can add the commandPalette<\/code> command to the keybindings<\/code> array in your settings.json.<\/p>\n

{ \"command\": \"commandPalette\", \"keys\": \"ctrl+shift+p\" }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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 ><\/code> and you can then enter any wt<\/code> command, which will be invoked on the current window.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Advanced tab switcher<\/h2>\n
We have added an advanced tab switcher to help you navigate more easily between your tabs. This is enabled by default with the useTabSwitcher<\/code> global setting. When enabled, the nextTab<\/code> and prevTab<\/code> commands will use the tab switcher. By default, these keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+Tab<\/code> and Ctrl+Shift+Tab<\/code>, respectively.<\/p>\n
\"useTabSwitcher\": true\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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Tab color setting<\/h2>\n
You can now specify a tab color for each profile! This can be done by adding the tabColor<\/code> setting to a profile and setting it to a color in hex format.<\/p>\n
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\ud83d\udca1 TIP:<\/strong> Set your tab color to the same color as your background for a seamless experience!<\/p>\n
New commands<\/h2>\n
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.<\/p>\n
wt<\/code> commands as a key binding<\/h3>\n
We have added the ability to execute wt.exe command line arguments with key bindings. This can be done with the wt<\/code> command. The commandline<\/code> property defines the command line arguments you would like to invoke on the current window. More information on wt<\/code> command line arguments can be found on our docs site<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\/\/ 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.\n{ \"command\": { \"action\": \"wt\", \"commandline\": \"new-tab pwsh.exe ; split-pane -p \\\"Command Prompt\\\" -d C:\\\\ ; split-pane -p \\\"Ubuntu\\\" -H\" }, \"keys\": \"ctrl+a\" }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Send input to the shell<\/h3>\n
If you want to send input to the shell by using a keyboard shortcut, you can do so with the sendInput<\/code> command. (Thanks @lhecker<\/a>!)<\/p>\n
\/\/ This command navigates backwards through the shell history.\n{ \"command\": { \"action\": \"sendInput\", \"input\": \"\\u001b[A\" }, \"keys\": \"ctrl+b\" }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Tab search<\/h3>\n
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<\/code> command.<\/p>\n
{ \"command\": \"tabSearch\", \"keys\": \"ctrl+c\" }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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Change color scheme<\/h3>\n
You can set the color scheme of the active window by using the setColorScheme<\/code> command.<\/p>\n
{ \"command\": { \"action\": \"setColorScheme\", \"colorScheme\": \"Campbell\" }, \"keys\": \"ctrl+d\" }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Bug fixes<\/h2>\n
\ud83d\udc1b You can now specify which types of formats you would like to copy.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc1b Profiles whose indices are greater than 9 will now properly display their shortcuts in the dropdown. (Thanks @MichelleTanPY<\/a>!)<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc1b altGrAliasing: false<\/code> will no longer break AltGr<\/kbd><\/p>\n
Top contributors<\/h2>\n
We had a lot of wonderful contributions this month and we’d like to recognize those who especially made an impact!<\/p>\n
Contributors who opened the most non-duplicate issues<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 KalleOlaviNiemitalo<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 skyline75489<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 Fcscanf<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 pcgeek86<\/a><\/p>\n
Contributors who created the most merged pull requests<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 MichelleTanPY<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 javierdlg<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 lhecker<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 schorrm<\/a><\/p>\n
Contributors who provided the most comments on pull requests<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 mrange<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 schorrm<\/a><\/p>\n
Until next time<\/h2>\n
We hope you like these latest additions to Windows Terminal Preview<\/a>! All of our documentation can be found at docs.microsoft.com<\/a>. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to Kayla (@cinnamon_msft<\/a>) on Twitter. If you find any bugs or would like to request a new feature, you can file a new issue on GitHub<\/a>. We will see you in September for our next release!<\/p>\n
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