Test: Integrated Terminal (June)

[Tyriar]

Test plan for June's improvements made to the integrated terminal (#143 ). This test plan will take a fair bit of time to get through.

Operating Systems

• Windows - @chrmarti
• Mac @isidorn
• Linux - @kieferrm

What's new?

A lot of stuff changed in the terminal, many bugs were fixed, some big features landed like multiple terminals and the ability to consistently copy and paste (currently bound to ctrl+ins to copy, shift+ins to paste), the underlying library that powers the terminal was swapped out for a more mature one (xterm.js) and there was a big refactor to support all these changes. CJK character width was also fixed so they should no longer have random sizing and/or wrap and break the row count of the terminal.

A full list of the changes can be seen here.

What to test?

Here is a mostly complete list of test cases around features that were added, fixed or impacted greatly by the refactor and xterm.js adoption:

• Adding multiple terminals (ctrl+shift+backtick, removing various indexes (first, last, middle)
• Using a non-standard shell
• Using exit to kill the shell
• Using copy ctrl+ins and paste shift+ins
• Using middle click to paste selection on Linux
• Try building and running vscode through the integrated terminal (./scripts/code.sh)
• CJK and general unicode characters can be input and viewed in the terminal. note that you cannot use an IME currently Terminal doesn't accept input via IME xtermjs/xterm.js#124 (the varying height of unicode characters is a known issue Lines containing unicode characters in integrated terminal differ in height #8219)
• Resizing:
  • Vertically & horizontally
  • With and without a program running
  • With little output
• Scrolling:
  • ctrl+shift+arrow (or mac equivalent)
  • ctrl+shift+page up/down (or mac equivalent)
  • Mouse or trackpad (reports of trackpad scroll not working on mac Integrated terminal scrolling not working in oh-my-zsh #7817)
• Using the new settings (they should apply without needing a window reload):
  • Add args when spawning a new shell: terminal.integrated.shellArgs.<platform>
  • Change font family: terminal.integrated.fontSize
  • Change line height: terminal.integrated.lineHeight
• Using the new commands:
  • workbench.action.terminal.focus
  • workbench.action.terminal.focusNext
  • workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious
  • workbench.action.terminal.kill
  • Disable cursor blinking: editor.cursorBlinking
  • Run the editor selection in the terminal: workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText
• Adjusting font size and line height
• Text foreground and background color is inverted on selection like in gnome-terminal
• The new "hollow" cursor when the terminal does not have focus
• Ensure vim no longer overrides the terminal color set vim overrides the terminal color scheme #6457