Multi tab input from one textbox #13802

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opened 2026-01-31 03:52:27 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @marbaa on GitHub (May 13, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Be able to send commands from one place to all active ssh sesions.

I spent a lot of time working on remote linux servers. Often I need to run same commands on multiple servers. I think some common textbox, which wil send output to all tabs will be useful.

terminal_multi_input

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

I do not have implementation details, just some hints when I was trying to write little tool for it using WINAPI. It was working pretty good, but there was one observation.
While typing into textbox and live sending each key press to all sessions, it makes CPU usage very big. Whole OS got slowed down. Therefore typing text should appear only in textbox, and after Enter press, command will be sent to all tabs.

Rough example can be seen here

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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 03:52:27 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 13, 2021):

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #2634 for more discussion.

/dup #2634

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 13, 2021): Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #2634 for more discussion. /dup #2634
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@ghost commented on GitHub (May 13, 2021):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (May 13, 2021): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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Reference: starred/terminal#13802