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opened 2026-01-31 03:20:05 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @ffes on GitHub (Feb 15, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Right now it is too difficult to open a new tab with a specific profile using the command palette. These are currently the keystrokes, you need to type:

  • Ctrl+Shift+P
  • .. (the "New Tab..." item is now selected, which luckily happened to be alphabetically the top item for that search string)
  • Enter to activate that "New Tab" command.

At this point you get a list of the profiles, that you can select and open.

For me, this is too cumbersome, so to open a new tab a non-current profile I always use the mouse and never use the command palette. The "New Tab, profile index: X" entries don't really help either. I can't remember what number is what profile on what machine. And since all the entries with the names of the profiles are in nested/submenus there is no way that typing a part of the profile name would show them in the command palette.

The command palette should help me, to do the common tasks quickly and opening a new tab with a certain profile is my most used task. On a normal day I have at least 3 tabs open from different profiles (Ubuntu, Git Bash, VS 2019 Developer CMD)

In the ideal world, I would press Ctrl+Shift+P, type a part of the profile name and the "New Tab" of that profile would be the first entry shown, the three "split pane" entries would be underneath that.

Disclaimer: I can't imagine this hasn't been requested before. I searched the issues, but couldn't find any issue. I probably missed some keywords while searching.

Originally created by @ffes on GitHub (Feb 15, 2021). # Description of the new feature/enhancement Right now it is too difficult to open a new tab with a specific profile using the command palette. These are currently the keystrokes, you need to type: - `Ctrl+Shift+P` - `..` (the "New Tab..." item is now selected, which luckily happened to be alphabetically the top item for that search string) - `Enter` to activate that "New Tab" command. At this point you get a list of the profiles, that you can select and open. For me, this is too cumbersome, so to open a new tab a non-current profile I always use the mouse and never use the command palette. The "New Tab, profile index: X" entries don't really help either. I can't remember what number is what profile on what machine. And since all the entries with the names of the profiles are in nested/submenus there is no way that typing a part of the profile name would show them in the command palette. The command palette should help me, to do the common tasks quickly and opening a new tab with a certain profile is my most used task. On a normal day I have at least 3 tabs open from different profiles (Ubuntu, Git Bash, VS 2019 Developer CMD) In the ideal world, I would press `Ctrl+Shift+P`, type a part of the profile name and the "New Tab" of that profile would be the first entry shown, the three "split pane" entries would be underneath that. _Disclaimer_: I can't imagine this hasn't been requested before. I searched the issues, but couldn't find any issue. I probably missed some keywords while searching.
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