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Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

By : Will Fuqua
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Book Image

Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

5 (1)
By: Will Fuqua

Overview of this book

Windows Terminal is a new and open-source command-line application for Windows 10, built for the Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and more. It's fast, modern, and configurable thanks to its GPU-accelerated rendering, excellent UTF-8 support, and JSON-based configurability, and this book can help you learn how to leverage these features. You’ll start by learning the benefits of Windows Terminal and its open-source development, as well as how to use the built-in tabs, panes, and key bindings to build your own efficient terminal workflows. After you’ve mastered Windows Terminal, this book shows how to use and configure PowerShell Core and the Windows Subsystem for Linux within Windows Terminal. You’ll maximize your productivity using powerful tools such as PSReadLine for PowerShell and ZSH on Linux, and discover useful tips and tricks for common developer tools like Git and SSH. Finally, you’ll see how Windows Terminal can be used in common development and DevOps tasks, such as developing frontend JavaScript applications and backend REST APIs, and managing cloud-based systems like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll not only be well-versed with Windows Terminal, but also have learned how to effectively use shells like PowerShell Core and ZSH to become proficient at the command line.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal
5
Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells
12
Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

List of Windows Terminal actions

adjustFontSize – Increases or decreases the font size. It takes a required integer delta property that represents how much to change the size by, in points.

closeOtherTabs – Closes all tabs except one. It takes an optional integer index property that specifies which tab to keep open. If omitted, it uses the currently active tab.

closePane – Closes the current pane. It does not take any properties.

closeTab – Closes the current tab. It does not take any properties.

closeTabsAfter – Closes all tabs after the specified tab. It takes an optional integer index property that specifies the tab. If omitted, it uses the currently active tab.

closeWindow – Closes the current window. It does not take any properties.

commandPalette – Opens the command palette. It takes an optional string launchMode property that can contain either "action" or "commandLine". The value "action...