Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Preview v1.5.3142.0 update for Windows 10 Nov. 11

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Features

URL auto-detection is here! Terminal will now detect URLs (of a certain limited vocabulary) and let you launch them by holding down Ctrl and clicking (#7691)

When we first authored this feature, we forgot to account for double-width glyphs. @comzyh made sure we didn't make this colossal (double-width) mistake (thanks!) (#8124)

The tab switcher is now more flexible: you can use it in Most-Recently Used (MRU) order, in tabstrip order, or not at all (#8076)

There's a new global setting, tabSwitcherMode, which supports the following enumerated values:

mru - most-recently used (MRU) order (default)

inOrder - in-order order (the order that the tabs at the top of the window are already in)

disabled - do not use the tab switcher

This setting supersedes (but does not invalidate) useTabSwitcher (boolean)

You can now zoom a split pane to be the only pane visible in its tab using the togglePaneZoom action (#6989) (#7973)

launchMode has been taught about focus and maximizedFocus, which will allow you to start up in focus mode (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#7873)

(you can now launch directly to focus/max focus mode with wt -f and wt -Mf. wt -F continues to indicate a request for "fullscreen" mode)

The openTabRenamer action is now available. It does roughly what it says (thanks @Coridyn!) (#7462)

The scrollUp and scrollDown actions have learned about rowsToScroll (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#7924)

backgroundImage now supports desktopWallpaper, which will make Terminal use your desktop wallpaper (thanks @bennetnicholas!) (#7849)

Terminal now supports the BEL sequence (thanks @j4james!) (#7679)

Belling can be configured with the profile setting bellStyle (enum, audible/none) (#7793)

Changes

The tab switcher now defaults to Most-Recently Used (MRU) order (#7952)

While you're using the tab switcher, you can now actually see the tab you'll be switching to! (#7796)

We will now warn you if the keyboard service is disabled (#8095), because that makes it impossible to type into Terminal

Double-middle-clicking on the taskbar preview will now close Terminal, even if it is asking you if you really are sure (thanks @rhorber!) (#7871)

We will now inform you, using a tooltip, that holding Alt while selecting a profile opens a new pane (#7866)

The hyperlink underline is now far less obtrusive than it was before (#8148)

The "Open Windows Terminal Here" shell extension will now use WT's icon (#8068)

Pane actions are now animated! You can disable these animations with the global setting disableAnimations (boolean, default false) (#7364)

Right-clicking on a tab will now yield a Close... submenu with some fun stuff in it (thanks @mpela81!) (#7728) (#7961)

Our glyph measurements are now up-to-date as of Unicode 13 (#8035)

You can now use emoji and Segoe MDL2 Assets glyphs as icons for profiles (and not just commands) (#7830)

Terminal will now display the correct icon for the system's contrast mode and whether it's a preview build or not (#7971)

Command Palette

The command palette now uses > to indicate action mode and (nothing) to indicate command mode (#7935)

To get from Action to Command mode, press backspace to delete the leading >.

The substring match in the command palette will now be highlighted in bold (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#7977) (#8188) (#8168)

PgUp/PgDown and Home/End now work more reasonably in the command palette (thanks @Hegunumo!) (#7835) with a bugfix from @Don-Vito (#8190)

We've added a back button to the command palette that will appear when you're looking at a nested command (thanks @Hegunumo!) (#8051)

VT support

OSC 10/11/12 now have support for the 600+ X.Org color names (like "antique white" and "lemon chiffon") (thanks @skyline75489!) (#7578) (#7929)

We've refactored our VT parser to make it far easier to maintain (thanks @j4james!) (#7799)

Terminal (and console) now supports DECREQTPARM (thanks @j4james!) (#7939)

Code Hygiene

We've removed some dead code pertaining to Telnet support and shrunk our binary by a few hundred kilobytes (#7840)

We have hooked up some more robust error reporting so we can help diagnose crashes more quickly (#7864)

We've done some deep refactoring on the settings model (#7667)

All overridden settings are now available to the app (in preparation for the Settings UI in #1564) (#7923)

Hidden profiles are no longer deleted, which means you can use one as your default profile (#8070)

All of the images in our repository have been optimized, which should save a couple tens of kilobytes on disk (thanks @WSLUser!) (#8169)

Bug Fixes

Keyboard keys that are not generated by actual keyboards (hi AutoHotKey and PowerToys) will no longer be ignored (thanks @lhecker!) (#7900)

The tab color picker should no longer get stuck if you enter #000000 (thanks @alannt777!) (#7963)

Bonus: you can now more easily set the brightness!

The top border should no longer disappear when you're in focus mode (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#8140)

PrintScreen should no longer clear your text selection (which was an entirely silly thing for it to do) (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#7883)

We will no longer force all your terminal windows to activate when you save your settings file (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#7887)

alwaysOnTop actually works now. Yeah, I know how that sounds. (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#8125)

It should be more difficult to get floating context menus when you drag the window (thanks @mpela81!) (#8010)

Resizing the window should no longer cause us to recycle hyperlink IDs (#8074)

Failure to write to your settings file is no longer considered fatal (#7950)

Some of you reported that clicking on links made Terminal hang! You may be surprised to find that that was not our intent. We've fixed that. (#8087)

Key bindings will now consume dead keys, which means that you can now bind them to do more important things (as in #5784) (thanks @lhecker!) (#7686)

We've improved the contrast ratio of the shortcut text in the command palette (#7937)

The jump list will now display profile icons even if they have forward slashes in them (#7711)

The Azure Cloud Shell connector will no longer fail and blame you for some sort of "Key not found" if you have an old shell configuration (thanks @Don-Vito!) (#8197)

Accessibility: we should no longer crash when a screen reader or UIA client expands a text range at the end of the buffer (#7677) (#7792) or when it moves back to a previous word sometimes (#7770) or when it's scrolled into view (#7868)

Accessibility: out-of-bounds text should no longer cause a crash (thanks @codeofdusk!) (#8052)

VT fixes

The unfortunate combination of OSC 52 (the mechanism used by tmux et al. to set the clipboard) and high Unicode should no longer result in utterly garbled text (thanks @amaya382!) (#7870)

Empty cells covered by an app-defined hyperlink will now no longer be ignored when rendering (#7738)

App-defined hyperlinks with the same ID but different URLs are now actually considered to be different links (#7940)

Performance

Opening and closing tabs when you have far too many profiles should no longer send the Terminal out for a coffee break (#7993)

Launching Terminal with embarrassingly many profiles should only take about half as long now, as we'll populate the jumplist more conservatively (#7978)

Accessibility: moving to the next word using a screen reader should be much faster (#7789)

Changes to the WPF Control

The WPF control now supports AutoFill, which allows the control container to resize without resizing the terminal itself (#7853) (#7983) (#7892)

(including a margin-related bugfix from @ScriptKat!) (#8039)

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Source: https://github.com/microsoft/termina...ag/v1.5.3142.0

See also: New Windows Terminal v1.4.3141.0 released for Windows 10 - Nov. 11

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New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1812.0 update for Windows 10 June 30

This is a small servicing update to the Windows Terminal Preview release train.

Windows Terminal Preview now ships with Cascadia Code 2007.01. This version offers a variable weight axis ranging from ExtraLight (200) to Bold (700) as well as some metrics tweaks and ligature fixes.

Bug Fixes

Compact tab sizing should now work more reliably (and not only apply to tabs that were open when you first switched into compact mode. oops!) (#6670)

We've reverted a glyph shaping-related performance improvement that caused a bunch of applications to look downright strange (#6665)

Terminal will no longer rely on PATH lookup for cmd and powershell. They ship as part of Windows, so we should know exactly where they are. (#6684)

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Source: Release Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1812.0 . microsoft/terminal . GitHub

Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wi...w/9n8g5rfz9xk3

See also:

3 Ways to Customize Your Windows Terminal | WIndows Blogs

New Windows Terminal v1.0.1811.0 released for Windows 10 - June 30

Brink · Nov 11, 2020

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 for Windows 10 scheduled for Feb. 11

Terminal v0.9 is scheduled for 2/11

This is the last release that will have new features before the v1 release

Subsequent releases are strictly for bug fixes and polishing

Features include:

Command line arguments

new-tab, split-pane, focus-tab

Examples:

wt -d . (opens a new Terminal in the current working directory)

wt -p "profile name" (opens a new Terminal with the given profile)

wt; new-tab -p "profile name"; split-pane -V -p "profile name" (demonstrated below)

Accessibility improvements

Community News

One Dev Minute Videos

Kayla has recorded some One Dev Minute videos about the Terminal

Three have been released so far:

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...20741409837056

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...26568349196288

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...51369883832324

Terminal v0.9 Work

Terminal Roadmap
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Source: Windows Terminal Status Updates . Issue #3600 . microsoft/terminal . GitHub

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Ahhzz · Nov 11, 2020

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

Open a new Explorer window.

Click View in the ribbon.

Click Options.

Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”

Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

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