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Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

You're reading from   Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207561
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal
2. Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI 4. Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile 5. Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells
6. Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings 7. Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance 8. Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts 9. Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions 10. Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro 11. Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert 12. Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development
13. Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal 14. Chapter 11: Building web applications with React 15. Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal 16. Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems 17. Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud 18. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix Windows Terminal Actions

Discovering unbound actions

The hidden actions in Windows Terminal can be hard to find. Ultimately, as Windows Terminal is open source, we can always read through the source code to find them, but that is a lengthy process given the number of actions involved. Most of these actions are listed in the command palette, but it's hard to discover them if we don't know what to type!

The first stop for finding actions should be Microsoft's documentation, available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/actions. The Windows Terminal team does a great job of keeping this up to date. However, even this documentation doesn't list all the actions available.

Luckily, Windows Terminal ships with a JSON schema. The schema is used to validate that the settings.json file is well-formed, and also to power Visual Studio Code's autocompletion.

The JSON schema file can be found by opening settings.json (Ctrl + Shift + ,) and navigating...

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