starred/terminal
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.git synced 2026-02-03 21:25:34 +00:00
Code Issues 19.0k Packages Projects Releases 20 Wiki Activity

Feature Request: Workspaces #8322

New Issue
Closed
opened 2026-01-31 01:26:31 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 01:26:31 +00:00
Owner
Copy Link

Originally created by @dakom on GitHub (May 20, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I often have several different related directories and would like to organize them as tabs in a Terminal window. For example, project "foo" might have "foo-frontend", "foo-backend", "foo-utils", "foo-shared-types", etc.

Currently, spinning this up requires a lot of manual work (open new tab, change directory, etc.)

It would be awesome if Terminal recognized some sort of "workspace" file, such that double-clicking it opened all those directories as separate tabs in a new Terminal window.

This is already an established convention in many other programs, including Microsoft products like VSCode

Originally created by @dakom on GitHub (May 20, 2020). # Description of the new feature/enhancement I often have several different related directories and would like to organize them as tabs in a Terminal window. For example, project "foo" might have "foo-frontend", "foo-backend", "foo-utils", "foo-shared-types", etc. Currently, spinning this up requires a lot of manual work (open new tab, change directory, etc.) It would be awesome if Terminal recognized some sort of "workspace" file, such that double-clicking it opened all those directories as separate tabs in a new Terminal window. This is already an established convention in many other programs, including Microsoft products like VSCode
claunia commented 2026-01-31 01:26:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020):

So there's already #756, which covers the whole "start with multiple tabs open" issue. What that won't get you is a way to have a file that will just run the Terminal with all those tabs automatically.

I suppose you could make a batch script that used the wt commandline args, and do something like the following:

@echo off

wt.exe new-tab -d .\foo-frontend ; new-tab -d .\foo-backend ; new-tab .\foo-utils

which will just spawn the terminal with three tabs in the given paths.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020): So there's already #756, which covers the whole "start with multiple tabs open" issue. What that won't get you is a way to have a file that will just run the Terminal with all those tabs automatically. I suppose you could make a batch script that used the [wt commandline args](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-line-arguments), and do something like the following: ```cmd @echo off wt.exe new-tab -d .\foo-frontend ; new-tab -d .\foo-backend ; new-tab .\foo-utils ``` which will just spawn the terminal with three tabs in the given paths.
claunia commented 2026-01-31 01:26:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@dakom commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020):

Ah you're right, I hadn't seen that issue - specifically this comment

Nor did I realize that the command line args were a thing. Wow, cool stuff :)

I'm happy if you want to close this issue. Thanks!

@dakom commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020): Ah you're right, I hadn't seen that issue - specifically [this comment](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/756#issuecomment-512195265) Nor did I realize that the command line args were a thing. Wow, cool stuff :) I'm happy if you want to close this issue. Thanks!
claunia commented 2026-01-31 01:26:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020):

Happy to help 😄

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (May 20, 2020): Happy to help 😄
claunia commented 2026-01-31 01:26:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@dakom commented on GitHub (May 21, 2020):

btw - in case anyone else lands here, adding start /b avoids the intermediary cmd window. e.g.

@echo off

start /b wt.exe new-tab -d .\foo-frontend ; new-tab -d .\foo-backend ; new-tab .\foo-utils
@dakom commented on GitHub (May 21, 2020): btw - in case anyone else lands here, adding `start /b` avoids the intermediary cmd window. e.g. ```bat @echo off start /b wt.exe new-tab -d .\foo-frontend ; new-tab -d .\foo-backend ; new-tab .\foo-utils ```
Sign in to join this conversation.
No Branch/Tag Specified
Branches Tags
Labels
Clear labels
⛺ Reserved
A11yCO
A11yMAS
A11ySev1
A11ySev2
A11ySev3
A11yTTValidated
A11yUsable
A11yVoiceAccess
A11yWCAG
Area-Accessibility
Area-AtlasEngine
Area-AzureShell
Area-Build
Area-Build
Area-Chat
Area-CmdPal
Area-CodeHealth
Area-Commandline
Area-CookedRead
Area-DefApp
Area-Extensibility
Area-Fonts
Area-GroupPolicy
Area-i18n
Area-Input
Area-Interaction
Area-Interop
Area-Localization
Area-Output
Area-Performance
Area-Portable
Area-Quality
Area-Remoting
Area-Rendering
Area-Schema
Area-Server
Area-Settings
Area-SettingsUI
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-Suggestions
Area-Suggestions
Area-TerminalConnection
Area-TerminalControl
Area-Theming
Area-UserInterface
Area-VT
Area-Windowing
Area-WPFControl
AutoMerge
Blocking-Ingestion
Culprit-Centennial
Culprit-WinUI
Disability-All
Disability-Blind
Disability-LowVision
Disability-Mobility
External-Blocked-WinUI3
Fixed
Gathering-Data
good first issue
HCL-E+D
HCL-WindowsTerminal
Help Wanted
Impact-Compatibility
Impact-Compliance
Impact-Correctness
Impact-Visual
In-PR
InclusionBacklog
InclusionBacklog-Windows TerminalWin32
InclusionCommitted-202206
Issue-Bug
Issue-Docs
Issue-Feature
Issue-Feature
Issue-Question
Issue-Samples
Issue-Scenario
Issue-Task
Needs-Attention
Needs-Author-Feedback
Needs-Bisect
Needs-Discussion
Needs-Repro
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Triage
No-Recent-Activity
Priority-0
Priority-1
Priority-2
Priority-3
Product-Cmd.exe
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Conhost
Product-Conpty
Product-Meta
Product-Powershell
Product-Terminal
Product-WSL
pull-request
Mirrored from GitHub Pull Request
 Resolution-Answered
Resolution-By-Design
Resolution-Duplicate
Resolution-External
Resolution-Fix-Available
Resolution-Fix-Committed
Resolution-No-Repro
Resolution-Won't-Fix
Severity-Blocking
Severity-Crash
Severity-DataLoss
spam
this-will-be-a-breaking-change
Tracking-External
WindowsTerminal_Win32
Work-Item
zAskModeBug
zInbox-Bug
No Label Area-Commandline Issue-Question Needs-Triage Product-Terminal Resolution-Answered
Milestone
No items
No Milestone
Projects
Clear projects
No project
Assignees
Clear assignees
claunia
No Assignees
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/terminal#8322
Delete Branch "%!s()"

Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?