Feature: Configurable Terminals in Standalone Mode#9
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salam merged 4 commits intosalam:mainfrom Apr 1, 2026
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Summary
Implements #8: support for configurable Terminal emulators in which to open conversations from Standalone mode.
Example config for Git Bash on Windows:
I do recommend that this be tested on Linux and macOS before merging, as I've only had the chance to test on Windows thus far.
Changes
customTerminalsoptional configuration property.tryExecFilesstrategy inStandaloneMessageHandler.tsso that all platforms encode a list of preconfigured terminal emulators, and working directory is specified inexecFilearguments rather than as part of the command.Unrelated to feature:
Untracks files under
out-standalone/: these were in the.gitignore, but seems they'd already been set up to track.Adds a VS Code launch configuration to debug unit tests...I've been experiencing a transient error where some unit tests, namely
'Conversation Parser'>'rate limit detection'>'detects rate limit in assistant text''Conversation Parser'>'rate limit detection'>'detects rate limit in tool_result text'and possibly others will non-deterministically fail, but I can't reproduce it reliably enough to debug.
Checklist
npm testpassesnpm run lintpassescd webview && npm run build)CHANGELOG.md(if user-facing change)vscode.l10n.t()for i18n