windows terminal
Synopsis
Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character sets, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and more. It also includes support for a custom window title, tab title, working directory, and environment variables for each tab. Windows Terminal is built from the ground up to enable future development of the Windows command-line experience. It will also continue to work perfectly with the Windows console host, cmd.exe, and Windows PowerShell.
Application Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|
Alt-F4 | Close window |
Ctrl-Shift-f | Find |
Ctrl-Shift-Space | Open dropdown |
Ctrl-, | Open settings file |
Alt-Enter F11 | Toggle full screen |
Tab Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|
Ctrl-Shift-d | Duplicate tab |
Ctrl-Shift-t | New tab |
Ctrl-Shift-p | New tab from profile p=1..9 |
Ctrl-Tab | Switch to next tab |
Ctrl-Shift-Tab | Switch to prev tab |
Ctrl-Alt-n | Switch to tab n=0..9 |
Pane Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|
Alt-Shift-d | Split pane optimally. Active profile. |
Alt-Shift-- | Split pane horizontally. Default profile. |
Alt-Shift-+ | Split pane vertically. Default profile. |
Alt-Shift | Resize pane |
Alt | Move pane focus |
Ctrl-Shift-w | Close innermost pane,tab, or window |
Clipboard Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|
Ctrl-c | Copy |
Ctrl-v | Paste |
| Command | Description |
|---|
Ctrl-Shift-up | Scroll up. |
Ctrl-Shift-down | Scroll down. |
Ctrl-Shift-pgup | Scroll page up |
Ctrl-Shift-pgdn | Scroll page down |
Visual adjustment Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|
Ctrl-= | Increase font size |
Ctrl-- | Decrease font size |
Ctrl-0 | Reset font size |
Customizing key bindings
| Command | Description |
|---|
User Settings | All customizations are set in settings.json, as found via the Settings menu. No GUI is available in v1.0. |
Defaults | Hold the Alt-key while pressing the Settings menu to open defaults.json. This is useful when building your own setting.json! |
Keys | Key bindings are set in the “keybindings” block as: { “command”:“cmdName”, “keys”:“mod+key“} |
Actions | Some commands take additional action arguments to modify the behaviour. |
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